Usually means: Conforms to expected standards consistently.
Definitions Related words Mentions
We found 23 dictionaries that define the word well-behaved:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. well-behaved: Merriam-Webster
  2. well-behaved, well-behaved: Collins English Dictionary
  3. well-behaved: Vocabulary.com
  4. Well-behaved, well-behaved: Wordnik
  5. well-behaved: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. well-behaved: Wiktionary
  7. well-behaved: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. well-behaved: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. well-behaved: Dictionary.com
  10. well-behaved: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. well-behaved: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Well-behaved: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. well-behaved: Rhymezone
  14. well-behaved: FreeDictionary.org
  15. well-behaved: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. well-behaved: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. well-behaved: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. well-behaved: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. well-behaved: CCI Computer
  3. well-behaved: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
)
American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour.
adjective:  (mathematics) Having intuitive, easy to handle properties, especially: having a finite derivative of all orders at all points, and having no discontinuities.

Similar:

Opposite:

Types:
Word origin

Words similar to well-behaved

Usage examples for well-behaved

Idioms related to well-behaved

Wikipedia articles (New!)

Popular nouns described by well-behaved

Words that often appear near well-behaved

Rhymes of well-behaved

Invented words related to well-behaved

Similar:

Opposite:

Types:



Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter.
This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.





Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Word games   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Random word   Help


Color thesaurus

Use OneLook to find colors for words and words for colors

See an example

Literary notes

Use OneLook to learn how words are used by great writers

See an example

Word games

Try our innovative vocabulary games

Play Now

Read the latest OneLook newsletter issue: Threepeat Redux