GOOD-TEMPERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does good-tempered mean? 

• GOOD-TEMPERED (adjective)
  The adjective GOOD-TEMPERED has 1 sense:

1. not easily irritated

  Familiarity information: GOOD-TEMPERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOD-TEMPERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not easily irritated

Synonyms:

equable; even-tempered; good-tempered; placid

Context example:

remained placid despite the repeated delays

Similar:

good-natured (having an easygoing and cheerful disposition)

Derivation:

good-temperedness (a cheerful willingness to be obliging)

 Context examples 

She was a great favorite with her mates, being good-tempered and possessing the happy art of pleasing without effort.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She thought he was really good-tempered, and could fancy his entering into a plan of that sort most pleasantly.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She had no doubt of Harriet's happiness with any good-tempered man; but with him, and in the home he offered, there would be the hope of more, of security, stability, and improvement.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

That he was not a good-tempered man had been her firmest opinion.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

As she grew up, a sound English education corrected in a great measure her French defects; and when she left school, I found in her a pleasing and obliging companion: docile, good-tempered, and well-principled.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You ought to know your friend best, replied Mr. Knightley; but I should say she was a good-tempered, soft-hearted girl, not likely to be very, very determined against any young man who told her he loved her.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)