Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
He does his job well.
Completely, fully.
Well done steaks
To a significant degree.
That author is well known.
Used as a discourse marker.
“So, what have you been doing?” “Well, we went for a picnic; and then it started raining, so we came home early.”
An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and in a lowering intonation).
A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
The woman said unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep.
A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
[Blood] welled from out the wound.
A small village in Long Sutton parish, Hart district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7646).
A small village and civil parish in East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF4473).
A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref SE2681).
From Middle English wel, wal, wol, wele, from Old English wel (“well, abundantly, very, very easily, very much, fully, quite, nearly”), from Proto-Germanic *wela, *wala (“well”, literally “as wished, ...
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Good, content.
“How are you?” — “I'm well, thank you!”
Prudent; good; well-advised.
In this respect it would be well for you to depart from the standard format and to indicate why you did what you did.
Well, well, well, what do we have here?
An exclamation of indignance.
Well! There was no need to say that in front of my mother!
Begin, then, sisters of the sacred well.
A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
Make a well in the dough mixture and pour in the milk.
To have something seep out of the surface.
Her eyes welled with tears.