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

The vegetables’ changing moisture, texture and shape also meant no two instruments behaved exactly alike. — Spin Staff, SPIN, 5 Oct. 2026

The company has since disclosed several additional incidents where its models behaved in unintended ways, prompting industry researchers and government officials to call for additional oversight. — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2026

OpenAI has paused training its latest models after agents searching federal websites behaved unexpectedly, including posting publicly available SEC information elsewhere and finding developer keys at the Education Department. — Bernard Condon, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026

The team used molecular simulations to examine how lithium and chloride ions behaved in different electrolytes. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026

Frontline employees may simply have behaved according to the measures against which they were being judged. — Thomas Lim, Forbes.com, 24 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