well-behaved

adjective

Definition of well-behavednext
as in obedient

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Recent Examples of well-behaved Compared to the other couples, Alexa and Lino are the most well-behaved at the villas and never cross any boundaries. — Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025 Your dog would have been well-behaved and wouldn’t have caused a distraction. — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2025 Many owners have been astonished to see just how calm and well-behaved their pup is when there's no one else at home. — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for well-behaved
  1. obedient
  2. docile
  3. tractable
  4. manageable
Adjective
  • His oxygen tank sat at his knees like an obedient mastiff.
    — Brandon Taylor, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2025
  • Anyone who meets the gentle, obedient boy would never call him that.
    — Bebe Hodges, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2024
Definition of obedient
Adjective
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition (March 25) takes a wary view of its own contents, which span half a millennium, arguing that the West acted out its daydreams of a docile Orient one cup-and-saucer at a time.
    — Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Mark is taller and brighter than Darren but infinitely more docile and far less street-smart.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2025
Definition of docile
Adjective
  • Medical researchers have made these images tractable for CNNs by breaking them up into much smaller fragments—square tiles, for example.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 23 Aug. 2021
  • When the pandemic blew everything up, situations that seemed intractable (the need to go to the office every day, for example) suddenly proved surprisingly tractable.
    — Ada Calhoun, TIME, 12 Feb. 2025
Definition of tractable
Adjective
  • That makes $1 billion in annual streaming losses manageable.
    — Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 2025
  • At the very least, the centralized app seems poised to make the increasingly complicated job of NHL general manager slightly more manageable.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 20 Mar. 2025
Definition of manageable

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“Well-behaved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/well-behaved. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.

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