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English
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Etymology
From well + behaved.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wɛlbɪˈheɪvd/, /wɛlbəˈheɪvd/
Adjective
well-behaved (comparative better-behaved or more well-behaved, superlative best-behaved or most well-behaved)
- Having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour.
The boy is well-behaved and is seldom naughty.
1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter II, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 35:How bright were the fire-irons; how clean the Dutch riles round the old-fashioned fire-place, how well-behaved even the cat.
1986, InfoWorld, volume 8, number 43, page 69:Remember that well-behaved software always keeps its hands off the computer's hardware.
- (mathematics) Having intuitive, easy to handle properties, especially: having a finite derivative of all orders at all points, and having no discontinuities.
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having good manners and acting properly
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 表現好的/表现好的 (biǎoxiàn hǎo de), 規矩/规矩 (zh) (guījǔ), 聽話/听话 (zh) (tīnghuà), 乖 (zh) (guāi)
- Danish: velopdragen
- Dutch: braaf (nl), goedgemanierd, gemanierd (nl), welgemanierd (nl)
- Finnish: hyvätapainen (fi), hyväkäytöksinen, hyvin käyttäytyvä
- French: bien élevé (fr)
- Galician: guiado
- German: wohlerzogen (de), artig (de), brav (de)
- Ingrian: vernoi
- Irish: suáilceach, dea-bhéasach, béasach
- Japanese: 行儀のいい (gyōgi no ii)
- Latvian: rātns
- Norwegian: veloppdragen
- Plautdietsch: ontlich
- Portuguese: comportado (pt)
- Romanian: manierat (ro) m, bine crescut m
- Russian: благонра́вный (ru) (blagonrávnyj), воспи́танный (ru) (vospítannyj)
- Swedish: väluppfostrad (sv)
- Turkish: uslu (tr)
- Vietnamese: ngoan (vi)
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mathematics: having easy to handle properties
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- Dutch: braaf (nl)
- Finnish: derivoituva (derivative), hyvin käyttäytyvä
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