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well-meaning

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Adjective
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well-mean=ing

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective well-meaning has 2 senses

  • well-meaning(s = adj.all) unthreatening - not unfriendly or threatening; "her well-meaning words were received in silence"; "the exasperation of a...well-meaning cow worried by dogs"
  • well-meaning(s = adj.all) well-intentioned, well-meant - 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"; "blunt but well-meant criticism"

CIDE DICTIONARY

well-meaninga. 
     Having a good intention.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

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

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Benevolence

N benevolence, Christian charity, God's love, God's grace, good will, philanthropy, unselfishness, good nature, good feeling, good wishes, kindness, kindliness, loving-kindness, benignity, brotherly love, charity, humanity, fellow-feeling, sympathy, goodness of heart, warmth of heart, bonhomie, kind-heartedness, amiability, milk of human kindness, tenderness, love, friendship, toleration, consideration, generosity, mercy, charitableness, bounty, almsgiving, good works, beneficence, the luxury of doing good, acts of kindness, a good turn, good offices, kind offices good treatment, kind treatment, good Samaritan, sympathizer, bon enfant, altruist, benevolent, kind, kindly, well-meaning, amiable, obliging, accommodating, indulgent, gracious, complacent, good-humored, warm-hearted, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, large-hearted, broad- hearted, merciful, charitable, beneficent, humane, benignant, bounteous, bountiful, good-natured, well-natured, spleenless, sympathizing, sympathetic, complaisant, well-meant, well-intentioned, fatherly, motherly, brotherly, sisterly, paternal, maternal, fraternal, sororal, friendly, with a good intention, with the best intentions, Int, Godspeed!, much good may it do!, act a charity sometimes, a tender heart, a will inflexible, de mortuis nil nisi bonum, say only good things about the dead, don't speak ill of the dead, kind words are more than coronets, quando amigo pide no hay manana, the social smile, the sympathetic tear.

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