good-tempered

1. 1.

   not easily irritated

   “an equable temper”

   “not everyone shared his placid temperament”

   “remained placid despite the repeated delays”

   Synonymsequableeven-temperedplacid

   Similargood-natured

Questions about good-tempered

What does good-tempered mean?

good-tempered means "not easily irritated".

How many syllables are in good-tempered?

good-tempered has 3 syllables: good--tem-pered. The stress falls on "good-".

What is another word for good-tempered?

Close synonyms include equable, even-tempered, placid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is good-tempered a common word?

good-tempered is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.