"well-behaved" meaning in English

See well-behaved in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /wɛlbɪˈheɪvd/, /wɛlbəˈheɪvd/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-well-behaved.wav Forms: better-behaved [comparative], more well-behaved [comparative], best-behaved [superlative], most well-behaved [superlative]
Etymology: From well + behaved. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|well|behaved}} well + behaved Head templates: {{en-adj|better-behaved|more|sup=best-behaved}} well-behaved (comparative better-behaved or more well-behaved, superlative best-behaved or most well-behaved)
  1. Having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour. Categories (topical): Human behaviour Translations (having good manners and acting properly): 表現好的 /表现好的 (biǎoxiàn hǎo de) (Chinese Mandarin), 規矩 /规矩 (guījǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), 聽話 /听话 (tīnghuà) (Chinese Mandarin), (guāi) (Chinese Mandarin), velopdragen (Danish), braaf (Dutch), goedgemanierd (Dutch), gemanierd (Dutch), welgemanierd (Dutch), hyvätapainen (Finnish), hyväkäytöksinen (Finnish), hyvin käyttäytyvä (Finnish), bien élevé (French), guiado (Galician), wohlerzogen (German), artig (German), brav (German), शिष्टाचारी (śiṣṭācārī) (Hindi), vernoi (Ingrian), suáilceach (Irish), dea-bhéasach (Irish), béasach (Irish), 行儀のいい (gyōgi no ii) (Japanese), rātns (Latvian), veloppdragen (Norwegian), ontlich (Plautdietsch), comportado (Portuguese), manierat [masculine] (Romanian), bine crescut [masculine] (Romanian), благонра́вный (blagonrávnyj) (Russian), воспи́танный (vospítannyj) (Russian), väluppfostrad (Swedish), uslu (Turkish), ngoan (Vietnamese)
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  2. (mathematics) Having intuitive, easy to handle properties, especially: having a finite derivative of all orders at all points, and having no discontinuities. Categories (topical): Mathematics, Human behaviour, Personality Translations (mathematics: having easy to handle properties): braaf (Dutch), derivoituva (english: derivative) (Finnish), hyvin käyttäytyvä (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-well-behaved-en-adj-hNxN-vrm Disambiguation of Human behaviour: 55 45 Disambiguation of Personality: 10 90 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Hindi translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Latvian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Hindi translations: 54 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 54 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Latvian translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 55 45 Disambiguation of Terms with Vietnamese translations: 55 45 Topics: mathematics, sciences Disambiguation of 'mathematics: having easy to handle properties': 21 79
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: mannersome, well-mannered, seemly, well behaved Hyponyms: polite Derived forms: well-behavedly, well-behavedness Related terms: well-posed

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "word": "degenerate"
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          "text": "The boy is well-behaved and is seldom naughty.",
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          "ref": "1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter II, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 35:",
          "text": "How bright were the fire-irons; how clean the Dutch riles round the old-fashioned fire-place, how well-behaved even the cat.",
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          "ref": "1986, InfoWorld, volume 8, number 43, page 69:",
          "text": "Remember that well-behaved software always keeps its hands off the computer's hardware.",
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        "(mathematics) Having intuitive, easy to handle properties, especially: having a finite derivative of all orders at all points, and having no discontinuities."
      ],
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    },
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    {
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    {
      "word": "well behaved"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "biǎoxiàn hǎo de",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "表現好的 /表现好的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "guījǔ",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "規矩 /规矩"
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      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "guāi",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "乖"
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "velopdragen"
    },
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      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "braaf"
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    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "goedgemanierd"
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    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "gemanierd"
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    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "welgemanierd"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "hyvätapainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "hyväkäytöksinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "hyvin käyttäytyvä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "bien élevé"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "guiado"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "wohlerzogen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "artig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "brav"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "śiṣṭācārī",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "शिष्टाचारी"
    },
    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "vernoi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "suáilceach"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "dea-bhéasach"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "béasach"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "gyōgi no ii",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "行儀のいい"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "rātns"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "veloppdragen"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "ontlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "comportado"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "manierat"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bine crescut"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "blagonrávnyj",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "благонра́вный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vospítannyj",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "воспи́танный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "väluppfostrad"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "uslu"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "having good manners and acting properly",
      "word": "ngoan"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "mathematics: having easy to handle properties",
      "word": "braaf"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "derivative",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "mathematics: having easy to handle properties",
      "word": "derivoituva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "mathematics: having easy to handle properties",
      "word": "hyvin käyttäytyvä"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "well-behaved"
  ],
  "word": "well-behaved"
}

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