Meaning of well-behaved | Babel Free

Definitions

1. correct, right
2. Having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour.
3. 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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Examples

“The boy is well-behaved and is seldom naughty.”

“How bright were the fire-irons; how clean the Dutch riles round the old-fashioned fire-place, how well-behaved even the cat.”

“Remember that well-behaved software always keeps its hands off the computer's hardware.”

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