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well-behaved

adjective

  1. (of a person or animal) Having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour

    "The boy is well-behaved and is seldom naughty."

  2. Having intuitive, easy to handle properties, especially: having a finite derivative of all orders at all points, and having no discontinuities.

Synonymsseemly, well-mannered
Antonymsdegenerate, pathological, ill behaved

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