Well Known Phone Numbers

Insistence on well rather than good has resulted in a split in connotation: Well is standard, neutral, and colorless, while good is emotionally charged and emphatic. Sometimes an adverb like well is so often placed in front of and combined with a certain past participle in order to modify it that the resulting adjectival combination achieves the status of a common word and.

A — used in phrases like might as well and may as well to say that something should be done or accepted because it cannot be avoided or because there is no good reason not to do it You say well to express your surprise or anger at something that someone has just said or done. The well of ink in a fountain pen.

1 day agowell (third-person singular simple present wells, present participle welling, simple past and past participle welled) (intransitive) to issue forth, as water from the earth;