well behaved

1. 1.

   (usually of children) someone who behaves in a manner that the speaker believes is correct

   “a well-behaved child”

   Synonymswell-behaved

   Similargood

Questions about well behaved

What does well behaved mean?

well behaved means "(usually of children) someone who behaves in a manner that the speaker believes is correct".

What is another word for well behaved?

Close synonyms include well-behaved. 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 well behaved a common word?

well behaved 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.