well

  • (adjective): In good health.
  • (adjective): Good, content.
  • (adjective): Prudent; good; well-advised.
  • (adverb): (manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
  • (adverb): (manner) Completely, fully.
  • (adverb): (degree) To a significant degree.
  • (adverb): (degree) Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
  • (adverb): In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
  • (interjection): Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
  • (interjection): An exclamation of surprise (often doubled or tripled).
  • (interjection): An exclamation of indignance.
  • (interjection): Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
  • (interjection): Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.
  • (interjection): (Hiberno-English) Used as a greeting
  • I had been sick, but now I'm well.
  • “How are you?” — “I'm well, thank you!”
  • He does his job well.
  • We’re well beat now.
  • That author is well known.