well
Part of speech: adv
adj
intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
arts
biology
computing
crafts
engineering
government
graphical-user-interface
hobbies
lifestyle
manner
mathematics
metallurgy
metalworking
military
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
transport
video-games
war
Etymology: From Middle English wel, wal, wol, wele, from Old English wel (“well, abundantly, very, very easily, very much, fully, quite, nearly”), from Proto-Germanic *wela, *wala (“well”, literally “as wished, as desired”), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“wish, desire”).
Cognates
Cognate with Yola vella, waal, wel, well, wull (“well”), Cimbrian boll, bóol (“well”), Dutch wel (“well”), German wohl, wol, woll (“well”), Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk vel (“well”), Faroese væl (“well”), Swedish väl, waͤl (“well”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌰 (waila, “well”). Related to will.
Inflected forms:
form: better
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: best
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: wall
pos: adv
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: weel
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: weil
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: welp
pos: adv
tags: alternative
US
colloquial
form: better
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: weller
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wellest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: val
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: vell
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: wall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: weel
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: weil
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: welp
pos: adj
tags: alternative
US
colloquial
form: wall
pos: intj
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: weel
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: weil
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: welp
pos: intj
tags: alternative
US
colloquial
form: wells
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wells
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: welling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: welled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: welled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
pos: adv
examples: He does his job well.
My RV runs well on diesel.
The jacket looks good and fits you well.
In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.
A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
This day is not going well.
gloss: Completely, fully.
pos: adv
examples: I prefer a well done steak.
Cook the potatoes well to ensure they aren't tough.
We’re well beat now.
I was well looked after by close relations.
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
His overall color was similar to that of a well-boiled lobster.
gloss: To a significant degree.
pos: adv
examples: That author is well known.
A monument well worth seeing
Indeed, some readers may feel that I am beating a horse now already well dead. But in fact, that dead horse is still being driven daily through the pages of introductory textbooks.
Energy markets demonstrated in the 1970s and 1980s that they were well capable of adapting to a perceived scarcity.
neither of us was paying attention to any damn imaginary scoring judges -- we were both well content, if a little fatigued.
gloss: Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
pos: adv
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
examples: That guy rocks! I think he's called Matthew Lillard or sommat but he is well cool in Scream.
Hey Dude / FIFA 2003 is well wicked, I've got FIFA 2002 on PS2, David Beckham on Xbox and Football Manager on Xbox too, out of all pf^([sic]) them FIFA 2003 is easliy^([sic]) the best.
Hey, you should've seen it, it was well good.
gloss: In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
pos: adv
examples: I'm glad Joe got fired last week. I think we're well rid of him.
Whatever now the omen prove, It boded well to you.
Know / In measure what the mind may well contain.
October 10, 1714, Alexander Pope, letter to Joseph Addison
All the world speaks well of you.
My Son Johnny, named ſo after his Uncle, was at the Grammar School, and a towardly Child. My daughter Betty (who is now well married, and has Children) was then at her Needle-Work.
gloss: In good health.
pos: adj
examples: I've been sick, but now I'm well.
I've always been a healthy, fit woman, but right now I really don't feel very well.
Mr. Peng said that the world-famous scientist, Sven Hedin, was kidnapped by troops under General Ma in south Sinkiang, but was released later, and is believed to be safe and well at Akosu.
gloss: Highly satisfactory
pos: adj
examples: Everything well with you?
gloss: Good, content.
pos: adj
examples: “How are you?” — “I'm well, thank you!”
Paulina. As she liu'd peerelesse,
So her dead likenesse I doe well beleeue
Excells what euer yet you look'd vpon,
Or hand of Man hath done: therefore I keepe it
Louely, apart. But here it is: prepare
To see the Life as liuely mock'd, as euer
Still Sleepe mock'd Death: behold, and say 'tis well.
gloss: Prudent; good; well-advised.
pos: adj
tags: uncommon
examples: In this respect it would be well for you to depart from the standard format and to indicate why you did what you did.
When executing bone scan protocols, it is well for one to be aware of how key deviations from optimal technique can degrade image quality.
On leaving the operating table it is well to put the patient in a bed previously warmed and supplied with hot cans.
gloss: Good to eat; tasty, delicious.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: This wahoo tastes val.
Drunk, like, a gallon of orange mindral. Tasted wel.
gloss: Used as a discourse marker.
pos: intj
examples: “So, what have you been doing?” “Well, we went for a picnic; and then it started raining, so we came home early.”
A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF KINK HISTORY
Do we know how kinky practices began? Do we know who the first kinky people were? Well, no.
Well, I am sorry. — It’s okay, Anna.
gloss: Used as a discourse marker.
pos: intj
examples: “The car is broken.” “Well, we could walk to the movies instead.”
“I didn't like the music.” “Well, I thought it was good.”
I forgot to pack the tent! Well, I guess we’re sleeping under the stars tonight.
“Well,” I says, “I cal’late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.
If gold pleased the conqueror, well,
That gold should be the one thing
The conqueror henceforth should lack.
gloss: Used as a discourse marker.
pos: intj
examples: “Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.
It was a bit... well, too loud.
gloss: An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and in a lowering intonation).
pos: intj
examples: Well, well, well, what do we have here?
gloss: An exclamation of indignance.
pos: intj
examples: Well! There was no need to say that in front of my mother!
gloss: Used as a greeting, short for "Are you well?"
pos: intj
tags: Ireland
examples: Well, lads? How's things?
gloss: Used as a question to demand an answer from someone.
pos: intj
examples: And what do you think you're doing? ... Well?
gloss: A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
pos: noun
examples: The woman said unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep.
By the end of the tenth century, Edith's humility had inspired a cult of holy wells in Kent, Staffordshire, and Herefordshire.
gloss: A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
pos: noun
examples: Begin, then, sisters of the sacred well.
gloss: A small depression, e.g. suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
pos: noun
examples: Make a well in the dough mixture and pour in the milk.
Four fixed windows are fitted on the corridor side of the body and nine louvred air intakes on the opposite side. Rubber water drainage pipes are taken from these, and from the pantograph roof well, down the inside of the body.
gloss: A source of supply.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled
A well of serious thought and pure, / Too deep for earthly light.
News of the deaths of James Baldwin and Richard Bruce Nugent in 1987 seemed to signal the death of an era — an era which produced works of monumental significance for Black lesbians and gay men; works such as Giovanni's Room, Just Above My Head, and "Smoke, Lillies, and Jade." As a fledgling Black gay writer, this was the well from which I drew succor.
gloss: A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
pos: noun
gloss: The cockpit of a sailboat.
pos: noun
gloss: A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
pos: noun
gloss: A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
pos: noun
gloss: A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
pos: noun
gloss: An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
pos: noun
gloss: The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
pos: noun
gloss: The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
pos: noun
gloss: A well drink.
pos: noun
examples: They're having a special tonight: $1 wells.
gloss: The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
pos: noun
examples: Tetris, the most widely played computer game of all time, is a problem-solving puzzle game. […] The player attempts to lock the falling shape smoothly together with the shapes in the well.
gloss: In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
pos: noun
gloss: The region of an interface that contains tabs.
pos: noun
examples: You can reposition the order of documents in the window by clicking and dragging the tabs, or you can drag a tab out of the well and view a document in its own floating window.
You should now have three documents open with their tabs showing in the tab well (this refers to the row of tabs for each open document in the editor), as shown in the following screenshot: […]
gloss: To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [Blood] welled from out the wound.
[Yon spring] wells softly forth.
gloss: To have something seep out of the surface.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Her eyes welled with tears.
Synonyms: so
see
look
as if
Derived words: all's well that ends well
full well
all too well
all very well
as well
as well as
bloody well
damned well
damn well
darn well
do well
do well by doing good
do well for oneself
fare thee well
fully well
goddamned well
go over as well as a lead balloon
hail fellow well met
jolly well
just as well
know fine well
know full well
leave well alone
leave well enough alone
let well alone
let well enough alone
may as well
medium well
might as well
ne'er-do-well
over well
play one's cards well
play well with other
pretty well
sleep well
speak well of
to a fare-thee-well
well acquainted
well actually
well-adapted
well-adjusted
well-advised
well-aimed
well and truly
well-appointed
well-attested
well aware
well-aware
well-baked
well-balanced
well-beaten
well begun is half done
well-behaved
well-behavedly
well-behavedness
well-beloved
well-beseen
well-born
well-bred
well-breeched
well-brought-up
well-built
well-child clinic
well-connected
well-coupled
well-covered
well-crafted
well-defined
well-definedness
well-deserved
well-designed
well-developed
well-disposed
well-documented
well-doing
well done
well-done
well-dressed
well-earned
well-educated
well-endowed
well-equipped
well-established
well-favored
well-favoured
well-fed
well-filled
well firmed
well-fitted
well-fixed
well-formed
well-formed formula
well-formedness
well-formedness rules
well-found
well-founded
well-foundedness
well-furnished
well-gowned
well-groomed
well-grounded
well-handed
well-handled
well-heeled
well-horned
well-hung
well-informed
well-intended
well-intentioned
well-kept
well-knit
well-known
well-laid
well-liked
well liked
well-liking
well-lit
well-looked
well loved
well-loved
well-made
well-made play
well-mannered
well-matched
well-meaner
well-meaning
well-meaningly
well-meant
well-merited
well met
well-minded
well-near
well-nigh
well-nourished
well-off
well off
well-offness
well-oiled
well-oiled machine
well-order
well-orderable
well-ordered
well-ordering
well-organized
well-padded
well-paid
well-placed
well-planned
well played
well-pleased
well-pointed
well-posed
well-posedness
well-positioned
well-practised
well-prepared
well-preserved
well-proportioned
well-publicised
well-publicized
well-put
well-qualified
well-read
well-received
well-regarded
well-regulated
well-respected
well-rested
well-room
well-rounded
well-run
well said
well-seen
well-served
well-set
well-settled
well-shaped
well-smithied
well-spoken
well spotted
well-stacked
well-stocked
well-stomached
well-tailored
well-tempered
well-tended
well-thewed
well-thought-of
well-thought-out
well-thriven
well-thumbed
well-timed
well-to-do
well-travelled
well-tried
well-trod
well-trodden
well-turned
well-upholstered
well-used
well versed
well-will
well-willer
well-willing
well-wish
well-wished
well-wisher
well-wishing
well-wooded
well-worn
wish someone well
wish well
wish you well
worried well
ja well no fine
very well
alive and well
get well
oh, well
well and good
well-being
ah well
oh well
well aye
well duh
welp
Abyssinian well
artesian well
Ashwell
Atwell
Bagot Well
Bakara Well
Bakewell
Bardwell Park
Bardwell Valley
blind well
Bothwell
Bracewell
Buckley Wells
Builth Wells
Caldwell
Calwell
Camberwell
Cardwell
Cherwell
Cheyenne Wells
Chigwell
Chilla Well
Chinaman Wells
Clay Wells
cold as a well-digger's arse
Crookwell
deep well
dipper well
draining-well
draw-well
dry well
dumb well
footwell
frog in a well
go to the well
gravitational well
gravity well
Greenwell Point
Hoddys Well
Hollywell
Holywell
hot well
ice well
Indian Wells
ink well
Jacobs Well
James Well
Lake Wells
light well
lightwell
livewell
Llandrindod Wells
Llangammarch Wells
Llanwrtyd Wells
Mabins Well
Maidenwell
Malvern Wells
Markwell
Millars Well
Mount Wells
New Well
Notts Well
oil well
Patrickswell
poison the well
potential well
quantum well
Schell Well
Shap Wells
snow well
spare tire well
spare tyre well
Speedwell
stairwell
stepwell
Taff's Well
Tenbury Wells
the jug goes to the well until it breaks
the pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last
tree well
Trigwell
truth lies at the bottom of a well
tube well
Tunbridge Wells
Two Wells
well-boat
well car
well deck
well drain
well dressing
well drilling
Well End
well flowering
well liquor
well logging
well-meaningness
well nut
well room
Wells Crossing
well sinker
wellspring
well wagon
well will
wet well
wheel well
White Well Corner
wildcat well
window well
wishing well
you don't miss the water till the well runs dry
you never miss the water till the well runs dry
you never miss the water until the well runs dry
upwell
well up
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: epo
lang: Arabic
word: طيّب
lang: Arabic
word: حسنًا
lang: Assamese
word: বাৰু
roman: baru
lang: Asturian
word: bien
lang: Bulgarian
word: е добре
roman: e dobre
lang: Bulgarian
word: ами
roman: ami
lang: Carpathian Rusyn
word: но
roman: no
lang: Catalan
word: bé
lang: Chickasaw
word: haatokma̠
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 好
roman: hǎo
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 那
roman: nà
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 那麽 /那么
roman: nàme
lang: Czech
word: no
lang: Danish
word: tja
lang: Danish
word: nå
lang: Danish
word: nåja
lang: Dutch
word: nou
lang: Dutch
word: nou ja
lang: Esperanto
word: nu
lang: Estonian
word: no
lang: Finnish
word: no
lang: Finnish
word: tuota
lang: French
word: eh bien
lang: Saterland Frisian
word: nu
lang: Georgian
word: აბა
roman: aba
lang: Georgian
word: ბარე
roman: bare
lang: Georgian
word: ბარემ
roman: barem
lang: German
word: na
lang: German
word: na ja
lang: Greek
word: λοιπόν
roman: loipón
lang: Hebrew
word: ואלה
roman: wálla
lang: Hebrew
word: ובכן
roman: uvkhén
lang: Hebrew
word: טוב
roman: tov
lang: Hiligaynon
word: abá
lang: Hindi
word: ख़ैर
roman: xair
lang: Hungarian
word: hát
lang: Hungarian
word: nos
lang: Irish
word: bhuel
lang: Italian
word: beh
lang: Italian
word: mbè
lang: Japanese
word: うーん
roman: ūn
lang: Japanese
word: ええと
roman: ēto
lang: Japanese
word: あのう
roman: anō
lang: Korean
word: 저기
roman: jeogi
lang: Korean
word: 음
lang: Macedonian
word: е па
lang: Macedonian
word: па
roman: pa
lang: Māori
word: kāti
lang: Māori
word: ehi
lang: Pashto
word: مړه
roman: maṛa
lang: Iranian Persian
word: خُب
roman: xob
lang: Polish
word: cóż
lang: Polish
word: no
lang: Portuguese
word: bem
lang: Portuguese
word: bom
lang: Russian
word: так вот
roman: tak vot
lang: Russian
word: ну
roman: nu
lang: Russian
word: что ж
roman: što ž
lang: Scots
word: weel
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: uill
lang: Slovak
word: no
lang: Slovene
word: no
lang: Spanish
word: bueno
lang: Spanish
word: pues bien
lang: Swedish
word: tja
lang: Swedish
word: nå
lang: Swedish
word: nåja
lang: Tagalog
word: puwes
lang: Tibetan
word: བྱས་ན
roman: byas na
lang: Turkish
word: işte
lang: Turkish
word: şey
lang: Turkish
word: vallaha
lang: Turkish
word: yani
lang: Tuvan
word: че
roman: çe
lang: Ukrainian
word: ну
roman: nu
lang: Welsh
word: wel
lang: Yakut
word: чэ
roman: če
lang: Bulgarian
word: добре
roman: dobre
lang: French
word: bien
lang: German
word: gut
lang: Greek
word: καλά
roman: kalá
lang: Greek
word: ωραία
roman: oraía
lang: Māori
word: tēnā
lang: Māori
word: tēnā tēnā
lang: Navajo
word: jó
lang: Spanish
word: pues
lang: Swedish
word: nämen
lang: Turkish
word: peki
lang: Turkish
word: pekâlâ
lang: Turkish
word: öyleyse
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 哪個 /哪个
roman: něige
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 嗯
roman: ēn
lang: Danish
word: øh
lang: Danish
word: eh
lang: Danish
word: øhm
lang: Danish
word: ehm
lang: Finnish
word: niinku
lang: French
word: écoutez
lang: French
word: ben
lang: French
word: bah
lang: German
word: naja
lang: Greek
word: που λες
roman: pou les
lang: Hebrew
word: אז
roman: az
lang: Korean
word: 저어
roman: jeo'eo
lang: Lithuanian
word: na
lang: Luganda
word: kale
lang: Luganda
word: mmm
lang: Luganda
word: eee
lang: Macedonian
word: зна́чи
roman: znáči
lang: Polish
word: hm
lang: Portuguese
word: é...
lang: Portuguese
word: pois
lang: Portuguese
word: sabe
lang: Romanian
word: păi
lang: Russian
word: зна́чит
roman: znáčit
lang: Russian
word: э́то
roman: éto
lang: Russian
word: э
roman: e
lang: Slovene
word: torej
lang: Spanish
word: este
lang: Swedish
word: öh
lang: Swedish
word: eh
lang: Tibetan
word: ཨ་ནི
roman: a ni