Definition of Good temper

1. Noun. A cheerful and agreeable mood.

Exact synonyms: Amiability, Good Humor, Good Humour
Generic synonyms: Humor, Humour, Mood, Temper
Specialized synonyms: Jolliness, Jollity, Joviality
Derivative terms: Amiable, Amiable
Antonyms: Ill Humor

Lexicographical Neighbors of Good Temper

good on you
good part
good people
good person
good riddance
good riddance to bad rubbish
good sense
good shape
good speller
good spirit
good spirits
good sport
good standing
good story
good temper (current term)
good things come to those who wait
good time
good time girl
good times
good to go
good turn
good turns
good value
good weather
good will
good wine needs no bush
good word
goodby
goodbye

Literary usage of Good temper

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
""So I can — except when it proves me in the wrong," she replied, with a sly glance, which quite restored my good temper. "And see, here is Mr. Herbert ..."

2. Pennsylvania Archives by Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, George Edward Reed, Pennsylvania State Library, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban (1877)
"... the iron and steele there bee of good temper for slumps and M,ch uses, whether y timber of those parts be good for that purpose & growes neare the sea ..."

3. Civilized America by Thomas Colley Grattan (1859)
"National good temper—Yankee Honesty—Speculators—Bankrupts—Curiosity about ... Among those I must specify the general good temper and civility evident in ..."

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