Meaning of well | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
2. well (adverbial form of bueno)
3. Completely, fully.
4. well; fine; okay (state of being satisfied with the status quo)
5. To a significant degree.
6. properly
7. Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
   Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang
8. willingly
9. In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
10. very

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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.”

“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.”

“Well done steaks”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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