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Meaning of well-behaved | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2 Specialized
wɛlbɪˈheɪvd

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.

Equivalents

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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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