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-natured

-natured

5.0
Having a particular way of behaving, often about people
  • adjective
  • Specialized
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  • There were constant good-natured arguments around the table with friends and relatives and parents.
  • a good-natured woman

This flight from the present is therefore in itself dual natured.

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Examples

  • We have morphed this fairly hapless but good-natured guy who is hired as death's apprentice.

  • Bill had always suspected that George Mitrakis was not nearly so innocent and good-natured as he seemed.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • And I think even the most well natured children probably have experienced a certain amount of challenges this year.

  • And I think if we're good-natured, you can fall into a trap as well of what I call if X then Y where people go.

  • But a lot of people were good-natured people who hoped for the best.

  • So good-natured, so sweet, so caring.

  • The good-natured dog played happily with the children in the park.

  • Despite the disagreement, they remained good-natured and continued their conversation.

  • She is known for her good-natured disposition, always helping others with a smile.

Surface Forms

-natured positive

Morphology

-natured = nature (transparent) = nature + ed

As a hyphenated combining form ('...-natured', e.g. kind-natured), the meaning 'having the nature of X' is directly derived from 'nature' plus an adjectival -ed, so learners can infer the meaning from known bases.

Etymology

-Natured comes from the simple word nature, which means 'character' or 'kind' of a person or thing. So, when you see -natured after a word like kind, it means 'having that kind of character', and kind-natured means friendly and gentle.