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good-humoured

good-humoured is the alternative spelling of good-humored.

Meaning of good-humored

Adjective

good-humored (comparative better-humored or more good-humored, superlative best-humored or most good-humored)

  1. Happy, cheerful, amiable.
    • Lady Feng was at the moment having a little goodhumoured raillery with Yüan Yang, and was taken so much off her guard, that she was quite startled out of her senses.1892–1893, Cao Xueqin, translated by H. Bencraft Joly, Hung Lou Mêng; or, The Dream of the Red Chamber; a Chinese Novel, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh, →OCLC

Forms of good-humoured

comparativebetter-humoured
comparativemore good-humoured
superlativebest-humoured
superlativemost good-humoured

Words formed from good-humoured

Questions about good-humoured

What is good-humoured the alternative spelling of?
Good-humoured is the alternative spelling of good-humored.

Words near good-humoured in the dictionary

  1. good-humor
  2. good-humored
  3. good-humoredly
  4. good-humoredness
  5. good-humour
  6. good-humoured
  7. good-humouredly
  8. good-humouredness
  9. good-king-henry
  10. good-looker
  11. good-lookers

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