Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Good-tempered \Good`-tem"pered\, a. Having a good temper; not easily vexed or irritated. See Good-natured.
Syn: equable, even-tempered, placid.
Wiktionary
a. Not easily irritated; affable alt. Not easily irritated; affable
WordNet
adj. not easily irritated; "an equable temper"; "not everyone shared his placid temperament"; "remained placid despite the repeated delays" [syn: equable, even-tempered, placid]
Usage examples of "good-tempered".
Mr Fegs, was even better, for he was so good-tempered, and kindly, and complying, that the very callants at the grammar school had nicknamed him Barley-sugar Pate.
It was Eustace who spoke but both Alison and Geraldine Telpher looked up with exactly the same twinkling smile of good-tempered derision.
The great, good-tempered fellow, as uncouth in its hairiness as Nebuchadnezzar during his lamentable but salutary attack of boanthropy, is regarded with a good deal of suspicion, if not dread, though it pays for its lodging by reason of its large appetite, which latter statement seems self-contradictory.
First-class secretary, intelligent, good-tempered, understands my ways, doesn't turn a hair if I fly off the handle, couldn't care less if I insult her.
Beazeley, the housekeeper, was a good-tempered woman, long passed the grand climacteric, and strongly attached to Forster, with whom she had resided many years.