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[good-hyoo-merd or, often, -yoo-] 
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| Main Entry: |
good-humored
[good-hyoo-merd or, often, -yoo-]
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | funny, happy |
| Synonyms: | affable, amiable, buoyant, cheerful, cheery, complaisant, congenial, easy, genial, good-natured, good-tempered, lenient, merry, mild, obliging, pleasant, smiling |
| Antonyms: | ill-humored, morose, sad, unfunny, unhappy |
| Main Entry: | amiable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, agreeable |
| Synonyms: | affable, amicable, attractive, benign, breezy, buddy-buddy, charming, cheerful, clubby, complaisant, cool*, copacetic, cordial, cozy, delightful, downright neighborly, easy, engaging, friendly, genial, good-humored, good-natured, gracious, home cooking, kind, kindly, lenient, lovable, mellow, mild, obliging, palsy-walsy, pleasant, pleasing, princely, pussycat, responsive, right, righteous, sociable, sweet-tempered, swell*, tight*, warm, warmhearted, winning |
| Notes: | amicable implies being well disposed; amiable is acting well disposed and amiable is commonly applied only to people - though sometimes it is used for occasions, while amicable is not applied to people at all but to human interactions and their outcomes; amiable first meant 'kind' or 'lovely, lovable' and amicable first applied to things and meant 'pleasant, benign' |
| Antonyms: | crabby, disagreeable, gloomy, hateful, irritable, mean, quarrelsome, rude, surly, testy, unfriendly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | amicable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, especially regarding an agreement |
| Synonyms: | accordant, agreeing, amiable, civil, clubby, concordant, cordial, courteous, cozy, empathic, good-humored, harmonious, kind, kindly, like-minded, mellow, neighborly, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, polite, regular, right nice, sociable, square shooting, sympathetic, understanding |
| Antonyms: | hostile, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | cheerful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy |
| Synonyms: | airy, animated, blithe, bouncy, bright, bucked, buoyant, cheery, chipper, chirpy, contented, effervescent, enlivening, enthusiastic, full of pep, gay, glad, gladsome, good-humored, good-natured, hearty, high, hilarious, hopeful, in good spirits, in high spirits, jaunty, jocund, jolly, joyful, lighthearted, lively, merry, optimistic, peppy, perky, pleasant, roseate, rosy, sanguine, snappy, sparkling, sprightly, sunny, sunny side up, up*, upbeat, vivacious, winsome, zappy, zingy, zippy |
| Antonyms: | cheerless, depressed, gloomy, grave, heavy, melancholy, sad, serious, unhappy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | complaisant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | agreeable |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, amiable, compliant, conciliatory, deferential, easy, easy-going, friendly, generous, good-humored, good-natured, good-tempered, indulgent, lenient, mild, obliging, polite, solicitous, submissive |
| Antonyms: | antagonistic, disagreeable, discontented, dissatisfied, obstinate |
| Main Entry: | congenial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, compatible |
| Synonyms: | adapted, affable, agreeable, amical, clubby, companionable, compatible, complaisant, congruous, consistent, consonant, conversable, convivial, cooperative, cordial, delightful, favorable, fit, genial, good-humored, gracious, happy, harmonious, jovial, kindly, kindred, like-minded, mellow, pleasant, pleasing, regular fellow, right neighborly, sociable, social, suitable, sympathetic, well-suited |
| Antonyms: | disagreeable, ill-suited, incompatible, uncongenial, unfriendly, unsympathetic |
| Main Entry: | funny |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | comical, humorous |
| Synonyms: | absurd, amusing, antic, blithe, capricious, clever, diverting, droll, entertaining, facetious, farcical, for grins, gas*, gay, gelastic, good-humored, hilarious, humdinger, hysterical, jocose, jocular, joking, jolly, killing*, knee-slapper, laughable, ludicrous, merry, mirthful, playful, priceless, rich, ridiculous, riot, riotous, risible, screaming, side-splitting, silly, slapstick, sportive, waggish, whimsical, witty |
| Antonyms: | dramatic, melancholy, sad, serious, tragic, unamusing, unfunny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | good-natured |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easygoing, easily pleased |
| Synonyms: | acquiescent, agreeable, altruistic, amiable, benevolent, bighearted, breezy, charitable, complaisant, compliant, cordial, easy, even-tempered, friendly, good-hearted, good-humored, gracious, helpful, kind, kindly, lenient, marshmallow, mild, moderate, nice, obliging, softie, tolerant, warmhearted, well-disposed, willing to please |
| Antonyms: | bad, mean |
| Main Entry: | mild |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easygoing, pleasant in personality |
| Synonyms: | amiable, balmy, bland, calm, clement, compassionate, complaisant, deferential, docile, dull, easy, equable, feeble, flat, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, gentle, good-humored, good-natured, good-tempered, humane, indulgent, insipid, jejune, kind, lenient, meek, mellow, merciful, mild-mannered, moderate, obeisant, obliging, pacific, patient, peaceable, placid, serene, smooth, soft, spiritless, subdued, submissive, subservient, tame, temperate, tender, tranquil, unassuming, vapid, warm |
| Antonyms: | agitated, flappable, nervous |
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