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Definition of Good temper
1. Noun. A cheerful and agreeable mood.
Generic synonyms: Humor, Humour, Mood, Temper
Specialized synonyms: Jolliness, Jollity, Joviality
Derivative terms: Amiable, Amiable
Antonyms: Ill Humor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Good Temper
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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