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well

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noun

1
a
: an issue of water from the earth : a pool fed by a spring
b
2
a
: a pit or hole sunk into the earth to reach a supply of water
b
: a shaft or hole sunk to obtain oil, brine, or gas
3
a
: an enclosure in the middle of a ship's hold to protect from damage and facilitate the inspection of the pumps
b
: a compartment in the hold of a fishing boat in which fish are kept alive
4
: an open space extending vertically through floors of a structure
5
a
: a space having a construction or shape suggesting a well for water
b
: the area behind a bar in which items used most frequently by a bartender are kept
6
a
: something resembling a well in being damp, cool, deep, or dark
b
: a deep vertical hole
c
: a source from which something may be drawn as needed
7
: a pronounced minimum of a variable in physics
a potential well

well

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verb

welled; welling; wells

intransitive verb

1
: to rise to the surface and usually flow forth
tears welled from her eyes
2
: to rise like a flood of liquid
longing welled up in his breast

transitive verb

: to emit in a copious free flow

well

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adverb

better ˈbe-tər How to pronounce well (audio) ; best ˈbest How to pronounce well (audio)
1
a
: in a good or proper manner : justly, rightly
b
: satisfactorily with respect to conduct or action
did well in math
works well under pressure
2
: in a kindly or friendly manner
spoke well of your idea
wished them well
3
a
: with skill or aptitude : expertly, excellently
paints well
b
: satisfactorily
the plan worked well
c
: with good appearance or effect : elegantly
carried himself well
4
: with careful or close attention : attentively
watch well what I do
5
: to a high degree
well deserved the honor
a well-equipped kitchen
often used as an intensifier or qualifier
there are … vacancies pretty well all the timeListener
6
: fully, quite
well worth the price
7
a
: in a way appropriate to the facts or circumstances : fittingly, rightly
well said
b
: in a prudent manner : sensibly
used with do
you would do well to reread the material
8
: in accordance with the occasion or circumstances : with propriety or good reason
cannot well refuse
the decision may well be questioned
9
a
: as one could wish : pleasingly
the idea didn't sit well with her
b
: with material success : advantageously
married well
10
a
: easily, readily
could well afford a new car
b
: in all likelihood : indeed
it may well be true
11
: in a prosperous or affluent manner
he lives well
12
: to an extent approaching completeness : thoroughly
after being well dried with a towel
13
: without doubt or question : clearly
well knew the penalty
14
: in a familiar manner
knew her well
15
: to a large extent or degree : considerably, far
well over a million
Good vs. Well: Usage Guide

Adverbial good has been under attack from the schoolroom since the 19th century. Insistence on well rather than good has resulted in a split in connotation: well is standard, neutral, and colorless, while good is emotionally charged and emphatic. This makes good the adverb of choice in sports.

"I'm seeing the ball real good" is what you hear Roger Angell

In such contexts as

listen up. And listen good Alex Karras
lets fly with his tomatoes before they can flee. He gets Clarence good Charles Dickinson

good cannot be adequately replaced by well. Adverbial good is primarily a spoken form; in writing it occurs in reported and fictional speech and in generally familiar or informal contexts.

well

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interjection

1
used to indicate resumption of discourse or to introduce a remark
they are, well, not quite what you'd expect
2
used to express surprise or expostulation
well, what have we here?

well

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adjective

1
b
: being in satisfactory condition or circumstances
2
: being in good standing or favor
3
: satisfactory, pleasing
all's well that ends well
4
: advisable, desirable
it might be well for you to leave
5
a
: free or recovered from infirmity or disease : healthy
he's not a well man
b
: completely cured or healed
the wound is nearly well
6
: pleasing or satisfactory in appearance
our garden looks well Conrad Aiken
7
: being a cause for thankfulness : fortunate
it is well that this has happened
8
of liquor : used for making mixed drinks when no branded alcohol is specified
also : made with well liquor
a well drink
Good vs. Well: Usage Guide

An old notion that it is wrong to say "I feel good" in reference to health still occasionally appears in print. The origins of this notion are obscure, but they seem to combine someone's idea that good should be reserved to describe virtue and uncertainty about whether an adverb or an adjective should follow feel. Today nearly everyone agrees that both good and well can be predicate adjectives after feel. Both are used to express good health, but good may connote good spirits in addition to good health.

Phrases
as well
1
: in addition : also
there were other features as well
2
: to the same extent or degree : as much
open as well to the poor as to the rich
3
: with equivalent, comparable, or more favorable effect
might just as well have stayed home
Choose the Right Synonym for well

healthy, sound, wholesome, robust, hale, well mean enjoying or indicative of good health.

healthy implies full strength and vigor as well as freedom from signs of disease.

a healthy family

sound emphasizes the absence of disease, weakness, or malfunction.

a sound heart

wholesome implies appearance and behavior indicating soundness and balance.

a face with a wholesome glow

robust implies the opposite of all that is delicate or sickly.

a lively, robust little boy

hale applies particularly to robustness in old age.

still hale at the age of eighty

well implies merely freedom from disease or illness.

she has never been a well person

Example Sentences

Noun his quirkily dysfunctional family proved to be a bottomless well of inspiration for the novelist the spot where the spring bubbles up to the surface and forms a deep well Adverb “How did everything go?” “It went well, thank you.” She works well under pressure. I did surprisingly well on my history test. The company is doing well. He has his own business and is doing well for himself. You got a perfect score! Well done! She sings and plays the guitar quite well. The essay is well written. He doesn't smoke or drink, and he eats well. She doesn't treat her boyfriend very well. Adjective The children are well again. I don't feel very well. You don't look so well. I hope you get well soon. I hope all is well with you and your family. See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
This is concerning for both their current well-being and their preparation for the workforce. Renata Cló, The Arizona Republic, 14 Sep. 2022 Any announcement of layoffs will rock remaining employees who may fear for their financial well-being and feel apprehensive about where the company is headed. Paige Mcglauflin, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2022 The Bel Air Woman’s Club is a member of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, an international organization that strives to nurture and support community projects that contribute to the well-being of local residents. Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 13 Sep. 2022 How can individuals be confident that these venues are committed to their well-being? Peter A. Bonis, STAT, 11 Sep. 2022 Newsom declared a state of emergency to increase energy supplies and avoid rolling blackouts — power outages that would have threatened the well-being of Californians unable to avoid the extreme heat. Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022 While at a get-together with old friends of mine, one of them waited until RJ went to the bathroom to ask me about my ex-husband and his well-being. Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 8 Sep. 2022 While at a get-together with old friends of mine, one of them waited until RJ went to the bathroom to ask me about my ex-husband and his well-being. Amy Dickinson, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2022 While at a get-together with old friends of mine, one of them waited until RJ went to the bathroom to ask me about my ex-husband and his well-being. Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022
Verb
Now, new research from Japanese scientists suggests that a dog's eyes may well up with tears of happiness when reunited with their owner after a period of absence. Katie Hunt, CNN, 22 Aug. 2022 Since the start of 2021, the equity portion of its portfolio has more than doubled from $1.5 billion to well over $3 billion––total dollar holdings, including project debt, stand at around $6 billion. Shawn Tully, Fortune, 9 July 2022 The frothy sensation of panic began to well up in his gut, threatening to take him out of the moment and squander any hope of escape. Scott Carney, Outside Online, 22 Apr. 2020 However, if the surface ice cap were to thin, the reduction in pressure could allow this deep water to well up. Katie Hunt, CNN, 5 May 2022 The tortured words and phrases seem to well up from someplace deep within himself, as if they were being articulated for the first time. Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021 The price tag of the project has ballooned to well over $130 million, which includes the cost of exhumations and a large new apartment complex that will soon break ground on the land that used to be the graveyard. New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021 So’s stories allow the past to well up into the present without force or preciousness. Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2021 The split-level set kept the actors in exquisite balance; the sense of tragic foreboding seemed to well up from inside the characters themselves. Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2021
Adverb
Addison very well could be the nation’s No. 1 receiver. Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2022 But high prices could very well lower turkey consumption altogether around the holiday season. Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 16 Sep. 2022 Those moments may very well cost him the moniker of greatest ever. Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2022 Both are regarded as locks to make the playoffs, so this very well could be the first of two 2022 clashes. And Staff Reports, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2022 Otherwise the Figma deal could very well blow up in Adobe’s face. Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2022 Seneca may very well have based that assessment on himself. Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2022 In a similar vein – and involving something that had nothing to do with driver error – Newgarden’s mechanical failure while racing with a 3-second lead on O’Ward stole a weekend sweep that might very well have won Newgarden the championship. Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Sep. 2022 Youngstown is now Trump country and could very well go for Vance in the Senate, despite Tim Ryan’s local roots. E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2022
Interjection
What if a whole world of new customers are out there, on their phones right now, just waiting to discover a new business like, well, yours? Steve Strauss, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2022 And, well, the Warhawks got $1.95 million, per USA Today’s Steve Berkowitz. Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2022 And, well, who can forget last year, when the Beavers rolled into the Los Angeles Coliseum and dealt the Trojans a 45-27 shellacking. Ken Goe For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2022 Shutterstock Embraer made news last summer by sharing its vision for the future, which bridges the gap between bold and, well, old: turboprops. J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 17 Sep. 2022 Apple pie is as much a part of America as, well, apple pie. Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 16 Sep. 2022 As for ratings, well, Monday Night Football sacked the ceremony. Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Sep. 2022 Here’s where to see leaves of every color (well, red, orange and yellow, mostly) in the Hoosier State this year: When does fall begin? Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Sep. 2022 Sheryl Lee Ralph just won her first Emmy award, for her role on the hit sitcom Abbott Elementary, and her acceptance speech—well, song—was straight from the heart. Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 12 Sep. 2022
Adjective
Inventing the car is all well and good, but the German brand was one of the first to put massaging elements inside car seats (the S-class in 2000). Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 4 Sep. 2022 The subject of divorce now is well and truly on the back burner. Wayne And Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2022 This is all well and good, to the extent that One Medical can deliver on its boasts. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022 Now, all this might be well and good if your mission is to save lives with your product, but what if your big corporate mission and values fall out of line with what’s possible in your team? Adrian Gostick, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022 Best Laptop Accessory Deals Working on the sofa is all well and good, but there's plenty of room to make your desk setup more comfortable and simply better. Adam Speight, Wired, 22 July 2022 Dove Cameron’s villain era is well and truly underway. Stephen Daw, Billboard, 24 June 2022 The Classical Academy eighth-grader is well on her way to meeting her goal of 1 million meals. San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2022 All is well with Luke Rhodes, and the team’s most dynamic return men are probably still Rodgers on kicks and Hines on punts. The Indianapolis Star, 26 Aug. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun

Middle English welle, wille "spring of water, pool formed by a spring, pit sunk into the earth to reach water," going back to Old English wælle (Anglian), wiell, wielle (West Saxon, later wille, wylle), going back to a Germanic base *waln(j)- (also *walj-?) with varying stem formations (whence also Old Frisian walla "spring, source," Middle Dutch wal, walle "a seething, boiling heat, spring or river of seething water") and with e-grade ablaut Old High German wella "wave, tide," Old Icelandic vella "boiling, bubbling mass," all nominal derivatives from the base of Germanic *walla- "to well up, seethe, bubble" — more at well entry 2

Note: Comparable nominal formations from Indo-European *u̯el(H)- "seethe, bubble" with zero-grade ablaut are Old Church Slavic vlĭna "wave," Russian volná (< *u̯l̥H-neh2), Lithuanian vilnìs "wave" (< *u̯l̥H-ni-), Sanskrit ūrmí- "wave" (< *u̯l̥H-mi-).

Verb

Middle English wellen "to rise to the surface, bubble up, boil, seethe," probably in part verbal derivative of welle "spring of water, well entry 1," in part adaptation of the transitive verb wellen "to boil, curdle, melt (metal), refine," going back to Old English wellan, wyllan (< *wiellan) "to cause to boil," probably going back to Germanic *wall(j)an- (whence also Middle Dutch & Middle High German wellen "to make boil," Old Icelandic vella), causative from *wallan- "to well up, seethe, bubble," Class VII strong verb (whence Old English weallan "to boil, bubble up," Old Frisian walla, Old Saxon wallan "to blaze, boil up, well up," Old High German, "to boil up, well up"), a Germanic verbal base of uncertain origin, seen also with a zero-grade present without gemination in Gothic wulan "to seethe, spread (of an ulcer)"

Note: Both the Middle English Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary, third edition (OED), treat the two Middle English verbs wellen as simply the same verb; compare, however, J. de Vries (Nederlands Etymologisch Woordenboek), who treats Dutch wellen "to bubble up" (opborrelen) and wellen "to make boil, hammer white-hot metal together" (doen koken, gloeiende metalen aaneenhameren) in separate articles. The OED asserts that there is a range of dialect attestation of the verb (wællan, wellan, willan, wyllan), apparently on the basis of the few forms given in the citations (the imperatives wel, wyl and wæl in recipes): "In Old English the verb shows the expected reflex of the i-mutation of early Old English æ (West Germanic a) before ll, depending on dialect." But if this statement is based on a reconstruction of the immediate pre-Old English form and inflection of the verb, or its West Germanic predecessor, no such reconstruction is given. The etymology itself merely lists a group of supposed Germanic cognates, summarized by the statement "a causative formation < the same Germanic base as wall v.1 [i.e., Old English weallan]." — In addition to *wallan-, Germanic has an apparent e-grade strong verb *wellan-, seen in Old Saxon and Old High German biwellan "to stain, besmirch," Old Icelandic vella "to well over, boil," and probably Old English wollentēar "with streaming tears." Along with a series of nominal formations outside Germanic based on a zero-grade *u̯l̥H- (see note at well entry 1), the Germanic verbs would lead to an Indo-European base *u̯el(H)- "seethe, bubble." Some have seen this etymon as identical with a homonymous base meaning "to roll" (see welter entry 1), the view of H. Rix, et al., (Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben, 2. Auflage, Wiesbaden, 2001). E. Seebold, on the other hand (Vergleichendes und etymologisches Wörterbuch der germanischen starken Verben, Mouton, 1970, p. 552) thinks the connection in sense is not so easily explained ("Wie dies Bedeutungsvielfalt zu erklären ist, bleibt unklar"; likewise Kluge-Seebold, 22. Auflage, s.v. wallen). Seebold points to the proximity of form and identical meaning of Lithuanian vérda, vìrti "to boil, seethe," Old Church Slavic vĭrěti.

Adverb

Middle English wel, going back to Old English, going back to Germanic *welō (whence Old Frisian wol, wel, wal "in a good manner," Old Saxon wola, wela, wala, Old High German wola, Old Norse vel, val), from an adjectival derivative of the base of *weljan- "to want" — more at will entry 1

First Known Use

Noun

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Verb

12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1

Adverb

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Interjection

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Adjective

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Time Traveler
The first known use of well was before the 12th century

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