Synonyms of behaved

behaved 1 of 2

adjective

as in cooperative

Related Words

• cooperative
• disciplined
• well-bred
• amiable
• deferential
• acquiescent
• obliging
• courteous
• respectful
• polite
• agreeable
• yielding
• servile
• mannerly
• obsequious
• subservient
• orderly
• obedient
• docile
• decorous
• controllable
• submissive
• compliant
• slavish
• manageable
• tractable
• conformable
• kowtowing
• amenable
• trainable
• proper
• governable
• biddable
• ruly

Dissimilar Words

• uncooperative
• undisciplined
• noncooperative
• defiant
• contrary
• disobedient
• rebellious
• refractory
• unruly
• contumacious
• recalcitrant
• intractable
• insubordinate
• wayward
• willful
• obstreperous
• ungovernable
• restive
• untoward
• rebel
• balky
• mutinous
• froward
• recusant
• insurgent
• incompliant

behaved

2 of 2

verb

past tense of behave

as in acquitted

to manage the actions of (oneself) in a particular way

if the children behave themselves properly and sit quietly during church, they'll get their ice cream afterward

Synonyms & Similar Words

• acquitted
• carried
• restrained
• conducted
• composed
• handled
• contained
• bore
• comported
• deported
• demeaned
• controlled
• collected
• constrained
• checked
• inhibited
• quit
• acted
• repressed
• tempered
• modulated
• played
• curbed
• quieted
• moderated
• impersonated

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• misbehaved
• carried on
• cut up
• misconducted
• acted up

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of behaved

Adjective

Forget about the ill-behaved, performative fans hoping to go viral on TikTok for unseemly behavior. — Fred Katz, New York Times, 14 June 2026

For families There are a couple of (very well behaved) babies here during my stay, but no kids dive-bombing the pool, and the stairs around this maze of a property aren’t particularly stroller friendly. — Sarah Leigh Bannerman, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Jan. 2026

Verb

After a team member behaved in a way that contradicted everything an organization claimed to value. — Farida Abjani, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026

Recent incidents involving models that bypassed safeguards or behaved deceptively have added urgency to the safety debate. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026

Either properly discouraged by the police presence or too damned hot to fight, people largely behaved. — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2026

For a brief period, however, many Americans behaved as though being part of a society meant participating in it. — Steven Fulop, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026

Our model not only reproduced how bacteria behaved under different nutrient environments, but also revealed where their memory likely resides. — Shiladitya Banerjee, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026

In Empa's earlier work, introducing phosphorus dramatically changed how the epoxy behaved in a fire. — New Atlas, 6 Sep. 2026

The signal in that is post-Covid travel has behaved like a secular growth story, not a cyclical one. — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026

According to Briones, the pair initially entered the restaurant and behaved like regular customers. — Ivan Taylor, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2026