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well
 
Adjective well has 3 senses
  1. well - in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury; "appears to be entirely well"; "the wound is nearly well"; "a well man"; "I think I'm well; at least I feel well"
    Antonyms:     ill, afflicted, aguish, ailing, indisposed, peaked, poorly, sickly, under the weather, airsick, air sick, carsick, seasick, bedfast, bedridden, bedrid, infirm, sick-abed, bilious, liverish, livery, bronchitic, consumptive, convalescent, recovering, delirious, hallucinating, diabetic, dizzy, giddy, woozy, vertiginous, dyspeptic, faint, light, swooning, light-headed, lightheaded, feverish, feverous, funny, gouty, laid low, stricken, menstruating, unwell, nauseated, queasy, sick, sickish, scrofulous, tubercular, tuberculous, unhealed, upset, green, laid up, sneezy, spastic
  2. good, well - resulting favorably; "its 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"
    Antonym: unfortunate (indirect, via fortunate)
  3. well - wise or advantageous and hence advisable; "it would be well to start early"
    Antonyms:     inadvisable, unadvisable (indirect, via advisable)
Adverbial well has 13 senses
  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-planned party"; "the baby can walk pretty good"
    Antonyms: ill, badly, poorly
  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"
    Antonyms:     ill, badly
  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"
    Antonyms:     badly
  11. well, advantageously - in a manner affording benefit or advantage; "she married well"; "The children were settled advantageously in Seattle"
    Antonyms: badly, disadvantageously
  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"
    Antonyms:     badly
Noun well has 5 senses
  1. well - a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine
    --1 is a kind of     excavation, hole in the ground
    --1 has particulars:
     artesian well; driven well, tube well; gas well; oil well, oiler; sump
  2. well - a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid
    --2 is a kind of     vessel
    --2 has particulars: inkwell, inkstand
  3. well, wellspring, fountainhead - an abundant source; "she was a well of information"
    --3 is a kind of source
  4. well - an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway)
    --4 is a kind of     shaft
    --4 has particulars: stairwell
  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
    --5 is a kind of     compartment
    --5 has particulars: bilge well; pump well
Verb well has 1 sense
  1. well, swell - come up; "Tears well in her eyes"
    --1 is one way to surface, come up, rise up, rise
    Sample sentence:
    Something is ----ing PP
well-versed well-visited well-wisher well-wishers well-wishing well-worded well-worn well-written well well acquainted well aware well behaved well being well build well built well done well dressed

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