Definition of "well"
- adverb
Accurately, competently.
Completely, fully.
To a significant degree.
Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
- adjective
In good health.
Prudent; good; well-advised.
- interjection
Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
An exclamation of surprise, often doubled or tripled.
Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
Used in speech to fill gaps; filled pause.
- noun
A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally, a spring.
A small depression suitable for holding liquid, or other objects.
A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
The cockpit of a sailboat.
A well drink.
The playfield of the video game Tetris.
- verb
To seep out of the surface.
To have something seep out of the surface.
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