Well-meaning

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Well-meaning \Well"-mean`ing\, a.
     Having a good intention.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  well-meaning
       adj 1: not unfriendly or threatening; "her well-meaning words were
              received in silence"; "the exasperation of
              a...well-meaning cow worried by dogs" [syn: {unthreatening}]
       2: marked by good intentions though often producing unfortunate
          results; "a well-intentioned but clumsy waiter"; "a
          well-meaning but tactless fellow"; "the son's well-meaning
          efforts threw a singular chill upon the father's
          admirers"- S.W.Maughm; "blunt but well-meant criticism"
          [syn: {well-intentioned}, {well-meant}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "well-meaning":
     agreeable, amiable, amicable, beneficent, benevolent, benign,
     benignant, brotherly, congenial, cooperative, favorable, fraternal,
     friendlike, friendly, harmonious, kind, kindly, kindly-disposed,
     neighborlike, neighborly, peaceable, pleasant, propitious,
     simpatico, sisterly, sociable, sympathique, unhostile,
     well-affected, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-meant