well
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Is well a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of well?
Definition
adv (English)
1. (manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.Examples: "He does his job well."; "My RV runs well on diesel."; "In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road."
2. (manner) Completely, fully.Examples: "Well done steaks"; "We’re well beat now."; "I was well looked after by close relations."
3. (degree) To a significant degree.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."
4. (degree, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).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."CommonwealthIrelandUKslang
adj (English)
1. (hypercorrect) Good, content.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."hypercorrect
2. (uncommon) Prudent; good; well-advised.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."uncommon
3. (archaic, now chiefly Bermuda) Good to eat; tasty, delicious.Examples: "This wahoo tastes val."; "Drunk, like, a gallon of orange mindral. Tasted wel."archaic
intj (English)
1. (Ireland) Used as a greeting, short for "Are you well?"Examples: "Well, lads? How's things?"Ireland
noun (English)
1. (figurative) A source of supply.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."figuratively
2. (nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
3. (nautical) The cockpit of a sailboat.
4. (nautical) 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.
5. (nautical) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
6. (military) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.Synonyms: shaft
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.Examples: "[Blood] welled from out the wound."; "[Yon spring] wells softly forth."intransitive
2. (intransitive) To have something seep out of the surface.Examples: "Her eyes welled with tears."intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary