Synonyms for good-natured
good-na·tured

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1. good-natured

   Amiable combines the senses of lovable or lovely and loving; the amiable character has ready affection and kindliness for others, with the qualities that are adapted to win their love; amiable is a higher and stronger word than good-natured or agreeable. Lovely is often applied to externals; as, a lovely face. Amiable denotes a disposition desirous to cheer, please, and make happy. A selfish man of the world may have the art to be agreeable; a handsome, brilliant, and witty person may be charming or even attractive, while by no means amiable. The engaging, winning, and winsome add to amiability something of beauty, accomplishments, and grace. The benignant are calmly kind, as from a height and a distance. Kind, good-natured people may be coarse and rude, and so fail to be agreeable or pleasing; the really amiable are likely to avoid such faults by their earnest desire to please. The good-natured have an easy disposition to get along comfortably with every one in all circumstances. A sweet disposition is very sure to be amiable, the loving heart bringing out all that is lovable and lovely in character.

   Synonyms:
   agreeable, amiable, attractive, benignant, engaging, gentle, harming, kind, lovable, lovely, loving, pleasant, pleasing, sweet, winning, winsome

   Antonyms:
   acrimonious, churlish, crabbed, cruel, crusty, disagreeable, dogged, gruff, hateful, ill-conditioned, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, morose, sour, sullen, surly, unamiable, unlovely

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1. good-naturedadjective

   having an easygoing and cheerful disposition

   "too good-natured to resent a little criticism"; "the good-natured policeman on our block"; "the sounds of good-natured play"

   Antonyms:
   choleric, ill-humoured, tetchy, testy, liverish, cantankerous, ornery, cranky, nettlesome, hot-tempered, spoilt, misogynistic, bad-tempered, dark, bristly, sour, ill-humored, churlish, morose, dyspeptic, short-tempered, currish, misanthropical, atrabilious, peevish, ugly, moody, techy, peckish, scratchy, surly, saturnine, cross, shrewish, snappy, glowering, shirty, waspish, huffish, irritable, vinegary, vinegarish, fussy, crabbed, misogynous, hotheaded, disagreeable, crusty, bilious, prickly, glum, quick-tempered, nagging, spoiled, fractious, misanthropic, dour, gruff, splenetic, petulant, grumpy, ill-tempered, ill-natured, irascible, pettish, curmudgeonly, snorty, sulky, crotchety, crabby, sullen, snappish, grouchy

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1. good-naturedadjective

   Synonyms:
   amiable, jovial, affable, complaisant, indulgent, good-humored, genial

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1. Carl Slaughter:

   He was a good kid, always good natured, and everybody has good memories of him.

2. Mark Twain:

   An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

3. Richard Brinsley Sheridan:

   For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse -- why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

4. Robb Leech:

   The last time I saw him it was about two months before he left and joined so-called Islamic State and we were laughing. It was very good natured, to remember him like that and then see him supposedly in this video, I don't understand that.

5. Hazlitt:

   Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.