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well

English

  1. 🔊 in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury
    “appears to be entirely well”
  2. 🔊 a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine
  3. 🔊 an enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps
  4. 🔊 an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway)
  5. 🔊 a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid
  6. 🔊 an abundant source
    “she was a well of information”
  7. 🔊 (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well')
    “the children behaved well”
  8. 🔊 without unusual distress or resentment
    “took the joke well”
  9. 🔊 indicating high probability
    “I might well do it”
  10. 🔊 thoroughly or completely
    “The problem is well understood”
  11. 🔊 favorably
    “their neighbors spoke well of them”
  12. 🔊 to a suitable or appropriate extent or degree
    “the project was well underway”
  13. 🔊 in financial comfort
    “They live well”
  14. 🔊 in a manner affording benefit or advantage
    “she married well”
  15. 🔊 to a great extent or degree
    “I'm afraid the film was well over budget”
  16. 🔊 with skill or in a pleasing manner
    “she dances well”
  17. 🔊 with prudence or propriety
    “You would do well to say nothing more”
  18. 🔊 with great or especially intimate knowledge
    “we knew them well”
  19. 🔊 (used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully
    “a book well worth reading”
  20. 🔊 come up, as of a liquid
    “Tears well in her eyes”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 y well
  2. 🔊 cheque well, fine, okay
  3. 🔊 hay que ver well, just look at that!
  4. 🔊 sobre ruedas well, smoothly; swimmingly

Similar words

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