Definition of well

"well" in the noun sense

1. well

a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine

2. well

a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid

3. well, wellspring, fountainhead

an abundant source

"she was a well of information"

4. well

an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway)

5. well

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

"well" in the verb sense

1. well, swell

come up, as of a liquid

"Tears well in her eyes"

"the currents well up"

"well" in the adjective sense

1. well

in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury at least I feel well"

"appears to be entirely well"

"the wound is nearly well"

"a well man"

"I think I'm well

2. good, well

resulting favorably

"it's a good thing that I wasn't there"

"it is good that you stayed"

"it is well that no one saw you"

"all's well that ends well"

3. well

wise or advantageous and hence advisable

"it would be well to start early"

"well" in the adverb sense

1. well, good

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"

"a task well done"

"the party went well"

"he slept well"

"a well-argued thesis"

"a well-seasoned dish"

"a well-planned party"

"the baby can walk pretty good"

2. well

thoroughly or completely fully often used as a combining form

"The problem is well understood"

"she was well informed"

"shake well before using"

"in order to avoid food poisoning be sure the meat is well cooked"

"well-done beef"

"well-satisfied customers"

"well-educated"

3. well, easily

indicating high probability in all likelihood

"I might well do it"

"a mistake that could easily have ended in disaster"

"you may well need your umbrella"

"he could equally well be trying to deceive us"

4. well

used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully

"a book well worth reading"

"was well aware of the difficulties ahead"

"suspected only too well what might be going on"

5. well

to a suitable or appropriate extent or degree

"the project was well underway"

"the fetus has well developed organs"

"his father was well pleased with his grades"

6. well

favorably with approval

"their neighbors spoke well of them"

"he thought well of the book"

7. well, considerably, substantially

to a great extent or degree

"I'm afraid the film was well over budget"

"painting the room white made it seem considerably (or substantially) larger"

"the house has fallen considerably in value"

"the price went up substantially"

8. well, intimately

with great or especially intimate knowledge

"we knew them well"

9. well

with prudence or propriety

"You would do well to say nothing more"

"could not well refuse"

10. well

with skill or in a pleasing manner

"she dances well"

"he writes well"

11. well, advantageously

in a manner affording benefit or advantage

"she married well"

"The children were settled advantageously in Seattle"

12. well, comfortably

in financial comfort

"They live well"

"she has been able to live comfortably since her husband died"

13. well

without unusual distress or resentment with good humor

"took the joke well"

"took the tragic news well"

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Quotations for well

Do well and have well. [ Proverb ]

Well begun is half done. [ Proverb ]

Deed done is well begun. [ Dante ]

All's well that ends well. [ William Shakespeare ]

Believe well and have well. [ Proverb ]

He lives long that lives well. [ Proverb ]

Necessity does everything well. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

He preaches well who lives well. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Love begins too well to end well. [ Daumas ]

Hatred is blind, as well as love. [ Proverb ]

Let us be merciful as well as just. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Hasty marriage seldom proveth well. [ William Shakespeare ]

If you brew well you may drink well. [ Proverb ]

Do well the duty that lies before you. [ Pittachus ]

Temperate anger well becomes the wise. [ Philemon ]

He that would reap well must sow well. [ Proverb ]

He is well paid that is well satisfied. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]

Hope well and have well, quoth Hickwell. [ Proverb ]

For life is not to live, but to be well. [ Martial ]

All men, well interrogated, answer well. [ Plato ]

Say well is good, but Do well is better. [ Proverb ]

That is well spoken which is well taken. [ Proverb ]

For a good poet's made, as well as born. [ Ben Jonson ]

There are male as well as female gossips. [ Colton ]

Ill will never speaks well nor does well. [ Proverb ]

Friends are good, - good, if well chosen. [ De Foe ]

Do well and right, and let the world sink. [ Herbert ]

Praise is only praise when well addressed. [ Gay ]

None can pray well but he that lives well. [ Proverb ]

He that commands well shall be obeyed well. [ Proverb ]

Good to begin well, but better to end well. [ Proverb ]

They serve God well who serve His creatures. [ Mrs. Norton ]

Nations, as well as individuals, are mortal. [ Oliver B. Seward ]

To have prayed well is to have striven well.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good. [ Rochefoucauld ]

There are few die well that die in a battle. [ William Shakespeare ]

You must look into people as well as at them. [ Chesterfield ]

He hath profited well that likes Cicero well. [ Proverb ]

The burden which is well borne becomes light. [ Ovid ]

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. [ Carlyle ]

Argument should be politic as well as logical. [ Lamartine ]

Cutting out well is better than sewing up well. [ Proverb ]

Character must be kept bright as well as clean. [ Chesterfield ]

You begin well in nothing, except you end well. [ Proverb ]

Riches are well, if gotten well and spent well. [ Vespasian ]

Few people do business well who do nothing else. [ Chesterfield ]

One expresses well only the love he does not feel. [ A. Karr ]

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity. [ Ovid ]

The first rule for speaking well is to think well. [ Mme. de Lambert ]

Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition. [ Beaconsfield ]

There are moral as well as physical assassinations. [ Voltaire ]

It is well to think well: it is divine to act well. [ Horace Mann ]

Riches well got and well used are a great blessing. [ Proverb ]

Throw no stones into the well whence you have drunk. [ Talmud ]

That man lives twice that lives the first life well. [ Herrick ]

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better. [ Edwards ]

Nothing speaks our grief so well as to speak nothing. [ Crashaw ]

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself. [ Swift ]

He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. [ Ovid ]

Many get into a dispute well that cannot get out well. [ Proverb ]

We all, when we are well, give good advice to the sick. [ Terence ]

True liberty is not liberty to do evil as well as good. [ John Winthrop ]

Saying well makes us laugh; doing well makes us silent. [ French Proverb ]

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Where there is a mother in the house, matters speed well. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. [ Voltaire ]

He that gains well and spends well needs no account-book. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is well to be independent also well not to be neutral. [ Kossuth ]

Guard well thy thoughts: our thoughts are heard in heaven. [ Young ]

It would be well had we more misers than we have among us. [ Goldsmith ]

He that eats well and drinks well should do his duty well. [ Proverb ]

Conversation is the vent of character as well as of thought. [ Emerson ]

Books are the best things, well used; abused, among the worst. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. [ Thoreau ]

He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body. [ Seneca ]

It is harder to marry a daughter well, than to bring her up well. [ Proverb ]

They do well, or do their duty, who with alacrity do what they ought. [ La Bruyere ]

The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well. [ Milton ]

Poor men may think well, but rich men may both think well and do well. [ Proverb ]

The harmony of things, as well as that of sound, from discord springs. [ Sir J. Denham ]

It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none. [ Marcus Antoninus ]

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. [ Alexander Smith ]

The measure of choosing well is whether a man likes what he has chosen. [ Lamb ]

Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together. [ Ovid ]

To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier. [ Balzac ]

We will obey the voice of the Lord our God, that it may be well with us. [ Bible ]

Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well. [ Seneca ]

Do you wish men to speak well of you? Then never speak well of yourself. [ Pascal ]

No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery. [ William Shakespeare ]

Speak little and well, if you wish to be considered as possessing merit. [ From the French ]

There are some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed. [ Chamfort ]

Ah! If the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well. [ Horace Greeley ]

Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability. [ Horace ]

Theory looks well on paper, but does not amount to anything without practice. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. [ Montesquieu ]

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of when I am doing well. [ Alexander the Great ]

The hypocrite shows well and says well, and himself is the worst thing he hath. [ Bishop Hall ]

Every one speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to speak well of his mind. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well. [ Hazlitt ]

Women of society, as well as Hottentots, run naturally to ornaments and gewgaws. [ Pere Dumas ]

well in Scrabble®

The word well is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters well:

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word well

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The 55 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In well

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well in Words With Friends™

The word well is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters well:

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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word well

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Words within the letters of well

2 letter words in well (2 words)

3 letter words in well (1 word)

4 letter words in well (1 word)

well + 1 blank (3 words)

Words containing the sequence well

Word Growth involving well

Shorter words in well

el ell

we

Longer words containing well

bowelless

bowellike

deepwell

drywell drywells

dwell dwelled indwelled

dwell dweller dwellers indwellers

dwell dweller indweller indwellers

dwell dwelling dwellings indwellings

dwell dwelling indwelling indwellingness

dwell dwelling indwelling indwellings

dwell dwells indwells

dwell indwell indwelled

dwell indwell indweller indwellers

dwell indwell indwelling indwellingness

dwell indwell indwelling indwellings

dwell indwell indwells

farewell farewells

inkwell inkwells

interwell

inwell

jeweller jewellers

jeweller jewellery

jewellike

maxwell

multiwell multiwelled

multiwell multiwells

oilwell oilwells

outwell outwelled

outwell outwelling

outwell outwells

powellise powellised

powellise powellises

powellising

powellite powellites

powellize powellized

powellize powellizes

powellizing

stairwell stairwells

swell groundswell groundswells

swell overswell overswelled

swell overswell overswelling

swell overswell overswells

swell reswell reswelled

swell reswell reswelling

swell reswell reswells

swell swellable

swell swelled overswelled

swell swelled reswelled

swell swelled upswelled

swell sweller

swell swellest

swell swellfish swellfishes

swell swelling nonswelling

swell swelling overswelling

swell swelling reswelling

swell swelling swellings

swell swelling unswelling

swell swells groundswells

swell swells overswells

swell swells reswells

swell swells upswells

swell upswell upswelled

swell upswell upswells

thermowell thermowells

troweller trowellers

unwell unwellness

upwell upwelled

upwell upwelling upwellings

upwell upwells

vowelless

vowellike

wellaccepted

welladapted

welladhered

welladjusted

welladjusting

wellbalanced

wellbecoming

wellbehaved

wellbeing

wellbeloved

wellbore wellbores

wellborn

wellbred

wellbuilt

wellchosen

wellconducted

wellconnected

welldefined

welldeserved

welldesigned

welldeveloped

welldisposed

welldocumented

welldoer welldoers

welldoing

welldressed

wellearned

welled bowelled debowelled

welled bowelled disbowelled

welled bowelled embowelled disembowelled

welled crewelled

welled dowelled

welled dwelled indwelled

welled jewelled bejewelled

welled multiwelled

welled outwelled

welled swelled overswelled

welled swelled reswelled

welled swelled upswelled

welled towelled

welled trowelled

welled upwelled

welled welleducated

wellendowed

wellequipped

wellestablished

wellfavored

wellfed

wellformed

wellfounded

wellgrounded

wellhead wellheads

wellhole wellholes

wellhouse wellhouses

wellinformed

welling bejewelling

welling bowelling debowelling

welling bowelling disbowelling

welling bowelling embowelling disembowelling

welling crewelling

welling dowelling

welling dwelling dwellings indwellings

welling dwelling indwelling indwellingness

welling dwelling indwelling indwellings

welling outwelling

welling swelling nonswelling

welling swelling overswelling

welling swelling reswelling

welling swelling swellings

welling swelling unswelling

welling towelling towellings

welling trowelling

welling upwelling upwellings

wellintentioned

wellkept

wellknown

wellliked

wellloved

wellmade

wellmaker wellmakers

wellmaking

wellmannered

wellmarked

wellmatched

wellmeaning

wellmeant

wellminded

wellmunitioned

wellness unwellness

wellnigh

welloff

wellordered

wellorganised

wellpaid

wellplaced

wellprepared

wellpreserved

wellprotected

wellread

wellreceived

wellrounded

wells drywells

wells dwells indwells

wells farewells

wells inkwells

wells multiwells

wells oilwells

wells outwells

wells stairwells

wells swells groundswells

wells swells overswells

wells swells reswells

wells swells upswells

wells thermowells

wells upwells

wells wellshaped

wells wellsite wellsites

wells wellspoken

wells wellspring wellsprings

wells wellstructured

wells wellsupported

welltaken

wellthoughtout

welltimed

welltodo welltodos

welltried

wellused

wellwisher wellwishers

wellworn