well
- Adverb. (context, manner) Accurately, competently.
- Adverb. (context, manner) Completely, fully.
- Adverb. (context, degree) To a significant degree.
- Adverb. (context, degree) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
- Adjective. In good health.
- Adjective. (archaic) Prudent; good; well-advised.
- Interjection. (colloquial) Used to acknowledge a statement or situation (short form for "that is well").
- Interjection. (colloquial, dated) An exclamation of surprise, often doubled or tripled.
- Interjection. (colloquial) Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
- Interjection. (colloquial) 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.
- Noun. A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally, a spring.
- Noun. A small depression suitable for holding liquid, or other objects.
- Noun. (nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
- Noun. (nautical) The cockpit of a sailboat.
- Noun. A well drink.
- Noun. (video games) The playfield of the video game ''Tetris''.
- Verb. To seep out of the surface.
- Verb. To have something seep out of the surface.
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