Marked by good intentions though often producing unfortunate results:
— A well-intentioned but clumsy waiter.

synonyms: well-meaning, well-meant.

Roget 944: virtuous, good; innocent etc. 946; meritorious, deserving, worthy, desertful^†, correct; dutiful, duteous; moral; right, righteous, right-minded; well-intentioned, creditable, laudable, commendable, praiseworthy; above all praise, beyond all praise; excellent, admirable; sterling, pure, noble; whole-souled^†.    exemplary; matchless, peerless; saintly, saint-like; heaven-born, angelic, seraphic, godlike.    ... show more

Roget 906: benevolent; kind, kindly; well-meaning; amiable; obliging, accommodating, indulgent, gracious, complacent, good-humored.    warm-hearted, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, large-hearted, broad-hearted; merciful etc. 914; charitable, beneficent, humane, benignant; bounteous, bountiful.    good-natured, well-natured; spleenless^†; sympathizing, sympathetic; complaisant etc. (courteous) 894; well-meant, well-intentioned.    fatherly, motherly, brotherly, sisterly; paternal, maternal, fraternal; sororal^†; friendly etc. 888.    ... show more