well-behaved

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