good-naturedly
/ɡˈʊdnˈeɪtʃɚdli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.86 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a good-natured manner.
Example Sentences
- "[H]ere the woman ſav’d me: I pretended a violent diſorder of my head, and a feveriſh heat, that indiſpos’d me too much to receive his embraces. He gave into this, and good-naturedly deſiſted."
- "Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”"
- "Later [Edwin] Meese, virtual seconds before he resigned, purported to take the whole T-shirt episode—you are not hallucinating—good-naturedly. “I take it as the joke I hope it was meant to be,” the then attorney general said."
Etymology
Etymology tree English good-natured Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English good-naturedly From good-natured + -ly.