Well

/ˈwɛl/ · adverb

Meaning

(manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily..

Definitions by Sense

1. (manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
2. (manner) Completely, fully.
3. (degree) To a significant degree.
4. (degree, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
5. In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
6. In good health.
7. Highly satisfactory
8. Good, content.

Example Sentences

He does his job well.

My RV runs well on diesel.

The jacket looks good and fits you well.

This day is not going 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.

Well done steaks

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Word Forms

• better
• best
• wall
• weel
• weil
• welp
• weller
• wellest
• val
• vell
• wells
• welling
• welled

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