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good-humouredly

good-humouredly adverb: in an amiable, cheerful, or pleasant manner.

Adverb

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

  1. (UK) In an amiable, cheerful, or pleasant manner.
    • He had quite the sense that she knew things he didn't, and though this was a concession that, in general, he found not easy to make to women, he made it now as good-humouredly as if it lifted a burden.1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC
    • Challenger slapped his colleague good-humouredly upon the shoulder.1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Time of Death”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 55

Antonyms of good-humouredly

  • bad-humouredly
  • ill-humouredly

Forms of good-humouredly

comparativemore good-humouredly
superlativemost good-humouredly
alternative formgoodhumouredly
alternative USgood-humoredly
alternative USgoodhumoredly

Origin of good-humouredly

From good-humoured + -ly.

Questions about good-humouredly

What does good-humouredly mean?
Good-humouredly means in an amiable, cheerful, or pleasant manner.
What part of speech is good-humouredly?
Good-humouredly is an adverb.

Words near good-humouredly in the dictionary

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

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