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well

adjective

Pronunciation

/wɛl/ /wɛl/

Audio pronunciation

Parts of speech

adjective adverb interjection noun verb

Definitions

adjective

  1. In good health.
  2. Good, content.
  3. Prudent; good; well-advised.

adverb

  1. (manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
  2. (manner) Completely, fully.
  3. (degree) To a significant degree.
  4. (degree) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
  5. In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.

interjection

  1. Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
  2. An exclamation of surprise (often doubled or tripled).
  3. An exclamation of indignance.
  4. Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
  5. Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.
  6. (Hiberno-English) Used as a greeting

noun

  1. A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
  2. A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
  3. A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
  4. A source of supply.
  5. A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
  6. The cockpit of a sailboat.
  7. 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.
  8. A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
  9. A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
  10. An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
  11. The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
  12. The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
  13. A well drink.
  14. The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
  15. In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.

verb

  1. To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
  2. To have something seep out of the surface.

Example sentences

I had been sick, but now I'm well.
“How are you?” — “I'm well, thank you!”
He does his job well.
We’re well beat now.
That author is well known.
“I didn't like the music.” “Well, I thought it was good.”
Well, well, well, what do we have here?
Well! There was no need to say that in front of my mother!
It was a bit... well... too loud.
“So what have you been doing?” “Well, we went for a picnic, and then it started raining so we came home early.”
Well lads. How's things?
Make a well in the dough mixture and pour in the milk.
They're having a special tonight: $1 wells.
Her eyes welled with tears.

Synonyms

so I mean like as if look see you know shaft
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