good-natured

• goodnatured

• IPA^(key): /ɡʊdˈneɪtʃəd/

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good-natured (comparative more good-natured, superlative most good-natured)

1. Having or showing an amicable, kindly disposition.
   • 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 22:

     “It is singular,” said the Lady, addressing Warden; “the animal is not only so good-natured to all, but so particularly fond of children. […]”

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 181:

     Rasmus was a tall, powerful man, with a weather-beaten, furrowed face of a good-natured expression.

   • 1964 August, “Dr. B lights a pre-election fuse”, in Modern Railways, page 76:

     However, the immediate howls of outrage from the industry were in many cases less than good-natured.

• “good-natured”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.