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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. not unfriendly or threatening;
- Example: "her well-meaning words were received in silence"
- Example: "the exasperation of a...well-meaning cow worried by dogs"
[syn: well-meaning, unthreatening]

2. marked by good intentions though often producing unfortunate results;
- Example: "a well-intentioned but clumsy waiter"
- Example: "a well-meaning but tactless fellow"
- Example: "the son's well-meaning efforts threw a singular chill upon the father's admirers"- S.W.Maughm
- Example: "blunt but well-meant criticism"
[syn: well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meant]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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: well-meaning,
           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-meaning, well-meant]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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