well-meant

English

Adjective

well-meant (comparative more well-meant, superlative most well-meant)

1. Having good intentions, even if resulting in unfortunate consequences.
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     When a loved aunt has sweated herself to the bone trying to save her god-child from the clutches of a New York playboy and learns that all her well-meant efforts have gone blue on her, it's only natural for her late brother's son to shudder in sympathy.

Synonyms

• well-intentioned

Translations

having good intentions, even if resulting in unfortunate consequences — see also well-intentioned

• Dutch: goedbedoeld (nl), welgemeend (nl)
• Manx: jeih-chreeagh
• Persian: خوش نیت