behaved

Meaning of behaved

adjective
  1. conducting oneself in a specified way.
    a well-behaved child
    some of the boys had been badly behaved
verb, past tense
  1. act or conduct oneself in a specified way, especially towards others.
    he always behaved like a gentleman
    it is not acceptable for a student to behave like that towards a teacher
  2. conduct oneself in accordance with the accepted norms of a society or group.
    ‘Just behave, Tom,’ he said
    they were expected to behave themselves

late Middle English: from be- ‘thoroughly’ + have in the sense ‘have or bear (oneself) in a particular way’.

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Hyphenation of behaved

be-haved

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • behaved is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

behaved synonyms

Meaning behave in the way specified:

act

behaved antonyms

Meaning (of a person, especially a child) fail to conduct oneself in an acceptable way; behave badly:

misbehave

Words that rhyme with behaved

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