Very Well

Definition: Very Well

Very Well

Adverb

1. Quite well; "she doesn't feel first-rate today".

2. Sentence-initial expression of agreement.

Synonyms: Very Well

Synonyms: all right (adv), alright (adv), fine (adv), first-rate (adv). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Assent	Adverb: yes, yea, ay, aye, true; good; well; very well, very true; well and good; granted; even so, just so; to be sure, "thou hast said", you said it, you said a mouthful; truly, exactly, precisely, that's just it, indeed, certainly, you bet, certes, ex concesso; of course, unquestionably, assuredly, no doubt, doubtless; naturally, natch.
Content	Interjection: amen; (assent); very well, all the better, so much the better, well and good; it will do, that will do; it cannot be helped.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	He's very well respected. (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) Before you came along, we Bagginses were very well thought of. (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Very well, sir. (Casablanca; writing credit: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison) Very well, I accept. (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman) I knew it very well when you took it out of my pocket. (Trouble in Paradise; writing credit: Aladar Laszlo; Grover Jones)
Lyrics	You seem very well, things look peaceful (You Oughta Know; performing artist: Alanis Morissette) Pay your surgeon very well (Californication; performing artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers) But you do it very well (Free To Decide; performing artist: The Cranberries)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	God and the New Haven Railway: And Why Neither One is Doing Very Well (reference) How Well Can We Assess Genetic Risks? Very Well,Lecture Given National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., Apr 8, 1981 (36P#) (reference) There He Keeps Them Very Well (reference) (more book examples)

Music	That's All Very Well, But... (reference) Very Well Organized (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Francois FTNelon	Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.
Friedrich Nietzsche	A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Karl Marx	The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Lord Byron	The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
President Harry S. Truman	I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.
Seneca	May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
Walt Whitman	Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes).
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	In general, it was a very well approved match.
Sylvie and Bruno	Carroll, Lewis	Still, you did it very well.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	We must go away from this house, but we shall come back, and we shall be very well off here.
Something Wicked This Way Comes	Ray Bradbury
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	To this they only replied with a smile of contempt, saying that the farmer had instructed me very well in my lesson.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The cornea copes very well with minor injuries or abrasions. (references)
		How Does the Cornea Respond to Injury? The cornea copes very well with minor injuries or abrasions. (references)
		Children with autism seem to respond very well to IEPs that are properly designed and systematically implemented. (references)
Business		Very well developed is the sector of data services. (references)
		There is a very well developed distribution system in this market. (references)
		The Japanese Hitachi is now entering the market with a very well organized financing campaign. (references)
Economic History	Poland	Classified advertising is very well developed and effective. (references)
	Switzerland	Heat pumps have been selling very well in the past few years. (references)
	Bulgaria	The computer and peripherals market in Bulgaria is very well developed. (references)
Political Economy	Ukraine	Political parties are not very well developed in Ukraine. (references)
Trade	Singapore	Banks are very well supervised by the MAS in Singapore. (references)
Travel	Korea	Seoul's public transportation system is very well organized. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, The Biography of a Dead Cow, is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century. Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it." Mr. W.C. Morrow, who used to live in San Jose, California, was addicted to writing ghost stories which made the reader feel as if a stream of lizards, fresh from the ice, were streaking it up his back and hiding in his hair. San Jose was at that time believed to be haunted by the visible spirit of a noted bandit named Vasquez, who had been hanged there. The town was not very well lighted, and it is putting it mildly to say that San Jose was reluctant to be out o' nights. One particularly dark night two gentlemen were abroad in the loneliest spot within the city limits, talking loudly to keep up their courage, when they came upon Mr. J.J. Owen, a well-known journalist. "Why, Owen," said one, "what brings you here on such a night as this? You told me that this is one of Vasquez' favorite haunts! And you are a believer. Aren't you afraid to be out?" "My dear fellow," the journalist replied with a drear autumnal cadence in his speech, like the moan of a leaf-laden wind, "I am afraid to be in. I have one of Will Morrow's stories in my pocket and I don't dare to go where there is light enough to read it." Rear-Admiral Schley and Representative Charles F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. Santlemann's, I think." "I don't hear any band," said Schley. "Come to think, I don't either," said Joy; "but I see General Miles coming down the avenue, and that pageant always affects me in the same way as a brass band. One has to scrutinize one's impressions pretty closely, or one will mistake their origin." While the Admiral was digesting this hasty meal of philosophy General Miles passed in review, a spectacle of impressive dignity. When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its effulgence -- "He seems to be enjoying himself," said the Admiral. "There is nothing," assented Joy, thoughtfully, "that he enjoys one-half so well." The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri. One day he rode into town on a favorite mule, and, hitching the beast on the sunny side of a street, in front of a saloon, he went inside in his character of teetotaler, to apprise the barkeeper that wine is a mocker. It was a dreadfully hot day. Pretty soon a neighbor came in and seeing Clark, said: "Champ, it is not right to leave that mule out there in the sun. He'll roast, sure! -- he was smoking as I passed him." "O, he's all right," said Clark, lightly; "he's an inveterate smoker." The neighbor took a lemonade, but shook his head and repeated that it was not right. He was a conspirator. There had been a fire the night before: a stable just around the corner had burned and a number of horses had put on their immortality, among them a young colt, which was roasted to a rich nut-brown. Some of the boys had turned Mr. Clark's mule loose and substituted the mortal part of the colt. Presently another man entered the saloon. "For mercy's sake!" he said, taking it with sugar, "do remove that mule, barkeeper: it smells." "Yes," interposed Clark, "that animal has the best nose in Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't." In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the misty moonlight. Mentioning the name of Helen Blazes with uncommon emphasis, Mr. Clark took the back track as hard as ever he could hook it, and passed the night in town. General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful. Returning to his apartment one evening, the General was surprised and pained to find Adam (for so the creature is named, the general being a Darwinian) sitting up for him and wearing his master's best uniform coat, epaulettes and all. "You confounded remote ancestor!" thundered the great strategist, "what do you mean by being out of bed after naps? -- and with my coat on!" Adam rose and with a reproachful look got down on all fours in the manner of his kind and, scuffling across the room to a table, returned with a visiting-card: General Barry had called and, judging by an empty champagne bottle and several cigar-stumps, had been hospitably entertained while waiting. The general apologized to his faithful progenitor and retired. The next day he met General Barry, who said: "Spoon, old man, when leaving you last evening I forgot to ask you about those excellent cigars. Where did you get them?" General Wotherspoon did not deign to reply, but walked away. "Pardon me, please," said Barry, moving after him; "I was joking of course. Why, I knew it was not you before I had been in the room fifteen minutes."
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
Bob Meyers	We're doing very well. We certainly would prefer that the circumstance wouldn't be the way it is. But on the other hand, if we're having to face the situation, and we're going to do it by trusting God rather than questioning him, and that helps us.
Fred Thompson	That very well could be the case, because part of what we've got to do, and I think really kind of the add-on to what I just said, is that we have got to be proactive in some areas.
Harry Belafonte	On another channel, getting ready to launch a work that I had just done. I was on NBC and just about to go down to the World Trade Center for breakfast. Had the incident happened just an hour later, I might very well have been one of its victims.
Henry Hyde	Actually, Robert, I do not. I hear the opposite. I hear commendations, compliments, words of praise. Most of us are very well satisfied with George W. Bush and the job he is doing.
Jim Jeffords	It's gone very well. I was very well received and nothing but praise and the book sales are going rapidly.
Julia Child	I don't know. I have that there's sort of a great, sort of a great power thing that you go back into, and then there are little bits of it that come out, and there are people. That doesn't explain it very well.
Karl Lagerfeld	Cha Cha, I love. I was a champion in Cha Cha, world. I even remember very well and I do very well the Bolero. I don't know if you remember that one.
Lynda Carter	Not really binges. Started off just drinking like everybody else. I never really liked alcohol. And then I didn't do very well with it.
Senator Paul Sarbanes	Well, here's your choice. At the moment, the accounting industry is overseen by the accounting industry. That's not working very well.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	Because of the transfer of authority in our form of government affects the state of the Union and of the world, I am happy to report to you that the current transition is proceeding very well.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	As this Congress knows very well, dropping prices and the loss of foreign markets have devastated too many family farms.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "very well": he is doing very well ♦ very well written. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "very well"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		uitstekend (fine, very), gaaf (fine, good, nice, okay, very). (various references)

Arabic		‏عظيم جدا (good for you). (various references)

Breton		mat-tre. (various references)

Bulgarian		съгласен съм (admit, agree), хубаво (jolly, nicely, prettily), много добре (famously, well and good). (various references)

Czech		velmi dobře, výbornì (finely, good, good for you, good man, great, well done, wonderfully). (various references)

Dutch		wonderwel (fine), uitstekend (eminent, fine). (various references)

Esperanto		eminente (fine), bonege (fine). (various references)

Finnish		varsin hyvin (perfectly well), olkoon menneeksi (then!), kiitos hyvää (fine, thank you, thanks), erinomaisesti (excellently). (various references)

French		bien (very, very much), � merveille. (various references)

German		sehr gut, bestens (at best, at the market, intimately, optimally). (various references)

Greek		πολύ καλά (nicely). (various references)

Guarani		porãitereíma (already very well). (various references)

Hebrew		בכי טוב (successfully). (various references)

Hungarian		jól fogy (to sell very well). (various references)

Italian		ottimo (excellent, first rate, great, optimal, optimum, super), ottimamente (excellently), bensì, benissimo (fine). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		宜しい (all right, can, fine, good, may, OK, will do). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		よろしい (all right, can, fine, good, may, OK, will do). (various references)

Manx		slane vie (most well). (various references)

Papiamen		ekselentemente (fine). (various references)

Pig Latin		eryvay ellway

Portuguese		muito bem (fine, highly, very good). (various references)

Quechua		sumaqta (well). (various references)

Romanian		ah (ah, dear me, goodness me, hah, heigh-ho, my goodness, oh, oh heavens, oho, phew, pshaw, sigh, tut, well). (various references)

Russian		очень хорошо. (various references)

Scottish		ma (if, provided that, well then). (various references)

Spanish		muy bien (fine, hear, highly, o.k., ok, okay, okey, okeydokey, that's the spirit, very good, well done). (various references)

Swedish		tack bra, gott (capitally, easily, excellently, good, nice, well). (various references)

Turkish		peki (all right, alright, good, o.k., ok, okay, well), çok iyi (alpha plus, bang up, banner, bully, celestial, cool, elegant, great, hell of, highly, jolly good, nicely, no mean, roaring, some, that's cool, thumbs up, two thumbs up, very good). (various references)

Turkmen		iзgin. (various references)

Ukrainian		дуже гарно. (various references)

Welsh		purion (right enough), o'r gorau (all right, OK). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Date	Source	Acts Chapter 25, Verse 10
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Eipen de o pauloV epi tou bhmatoV kaisaroV estwV eimi ou me dei krinesqai ioudaiouV ouden hdikhsa wV kai su kallion epiginwskeiV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Dixit autem Paulus ad tribunal Caesaris sto ubi me oportet iudicari Iudaeis non nocui sicut tu melius nosti
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And Poul seide, At the domplace of the emperour Y stonde, where it bihoueth me to be demed. Y haue not noied the Jewis, as thou knowist wel.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Then sayd Paul: I stonde at Cesars iudgemet seate where I ought to be iudged. To ye Iewes have I no harme done as thou verely well knowest.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou very well knowest.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Then said Paul, I stand at Cesar's tribunal, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou very well knowest.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And Paul said, I am before the seat of Caesar's authority where it is right for me to be judged: I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you are well able to see.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Acts Chapter 25, Verse 10
Albanian	Atëherë Pali tha: ''Unë jam para gjykatës së Cezarit, ku duhet të gjykohem; unë nuk u kam bërë asnjë të padrejtë Judenjve, sikurse ti e di fare mirë.
Cebuano	Apan si Pablo mitubag kaniya, "Ako ania nagabarug sa atubangan sa hukmanan ni Cesar, diin kinahanglan anhi ako hukmi. Ngadto sa mga Judio wala akoy nahimong paglapas sumala sa imo nang nasayran pag-ayo.
Croatian	A Pavao æe: "Stojim pred sudom carevim, gdje treba da mi se sudi. Židovima ništa ne skrivih, kao što i ti veoma dobro znaš.
Danish	Men Paulus sagde: "Jeg står for Kejserens Domstol, og der bør jeg dømmes. Jøderne har jeg ingen Uret gjort, som også du ved helt vel.
Dutch	En Paulus zeide: Ik sta voor den rechterstoel des keizers, waar ik geoordeeld moet worden; den Joden heb ik geen onrecht gedaan; gelijk gij ook zeer wel weet.
Finnish	Mutta Paavali sanoi: "Minä seison keisarin tuomioistuimen edessä, ja sen edessä minut tuomittakoon. Juutalaisia vastaan en ole mitään rikkonut, niinkuin sinäkin aivan hyvin tiedät.
French	Paul dit: C`est devant le tribunal de César que je comparais, c`est l� que je dois être jugé. Je n`ai fait aucun tort aux Juifs, comme tu le sais fort bien.
German	Paulus aber sprach: Ich stehe vor des Kaisers Gericht, da soll ich mich lassen richten; den Juden habe ich kein Leid getan, wie auch du aufs beste weißt.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Paulus menjawab, "Saya sedang berdiri di hadapan mahkamah Kaisar Roma; dan di tempat itulah saya harus diadili. Tuan sendiri tahu bahwa saya tidak bersalah terhadap orang Yahudi.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka kata Paulus, "Adalah hamba ini berdiri di hadapan kursi pengadilan Kaisar, tempat yang wajib hamba dihakimkan; tetapi kepada orang Yahudi suatu pun tiada kesalahan hamba, seperti terlebih maklum kepada Tuan juga.
Italian	Paolo rispose: «Mi trovo davanti al tribunale di Cesare, qui mi si deve giudicare. Ai Giudei non ho fatto alcun torto, come anche tu sai perfettamente.
Latvian	Bet Pâvils sacîja: Es stâvu íeizara tiesas priekðâ, tur pienâkas mani tiesât. Jûdiem neesmu ïaunu darîjis, kâ tu to vçl labâk zini.
Maori	Ano ra ko Paora, E tu ana ahau ki te nohoanga whakawa o Hiha, hei reira tonu ahau whakawakia ai: kahore oku he ki nga Hurai, kua tino kitea na hoki e koe.
Norwegian	Da sa Paulus: Jeg står for keiserens domstol, og der er det min rett å dømmes. Mot jødene har jeg ingen urett gjort, som også du godt vet.
Portuguese	Mas Paulo disse: Estou perante o tribunal de César, onde devo ser julgado; nenhum mal fiz aos judeus, como muito bem sabes.
Rumanian	Pavel a zis: ,,Eu stau knaintea scaunului de judecatq al Cezarului; acolo trebuie sq fiu judecat. Pe Iudei nu i-am nedreptqyit cu nimic, dupq cum wtii wi tu foarte bine.
Shuar	Tutai Papru Tímiayi "Amesha paant nékame, Israer-aentsnum tunaan penké Túrachjai. Tuma asamtai Rúmanmaya uunt akupniun wisha winia Túramurun ujaktiniaitjai, nekartuati tusan.
Swahili	Paulo akajibu, "Nasimama mbele ya mahakama ya Kaisari na papa hapa ndipo ninapopaswa kupewa hukumu. Kama unavyojua vizuri, sikuwatendea Wayahudi ubaya wowote.
Swedish	Paulus svarade: "Jag står här inför kejserlig domstol, och av sådan domstol bör jag dömas. Mot judarna har jag intet orätt gjort, såsom du själv mycket väl vet.
Uma	Na'uli' Paulus: "Tuama Gubernur! Toi-e, bula-ku mokore hi rehe'i hi kantoro' Gubernur, apa' Gubernur to jadi' wakele' Kaisar, magau' -ta hi Roma. Pai' bate topoparenta to Roma to natao mpobotuhi kara-kara-ku. Nu'inca moto ka'uma-na ria sala' -ku hi to Yahudi.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-l-l-r-v-w-y"
	-2 letters: yeller.
	-3 letters: elver, every, leery, level, lever, revel, veery, welly.
	-4 letters: eely, eery, ever, ewer, eyer, eyre, leer, levy, lyre, reel, rely, veer, very, weel, weer, well, were, wyle, yell.
	-5 letters: eel, ell, ere, eve, ewe, eye, lee, lev, ley, lye, ree, rev, rye, vee, wee, wry, wye, yew.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
differential drive system very well works	3
am as excited i i this very well write	3
itself lends nature operational outsourcing recruitment situation very well	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Very Well

Definition: Very Well

Very Well

Adverb

Synonyms: Very Well

Synonyms within Context: Very Well

Assent

Content

Crosswords: Very Well

Modern Usage: Very Well

Screenplays

Lyrics

Commercial Usage: Very Well

Books

Music

Familiar Quotations: Very Well

Francois FTNelon

Friedrich Nietzsche

Karl Marx

Lord Byron

President Harry S. Truman

Seneca

Walt Whitman

Use in Literature: Very Well

Emma

Austen, Jane

Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Non-Fiction Usage: Very Well

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Very Well

Bob Meyers

Fred Thompson

Harry Belafonte

Henry Hyde

Jim Jeffords

Julia Child

Karl Lagerfeld

Lynda Carter

Senator Paul Sarbanes

Speeches: Very Well

Gerald Ford

Bill Clinton

Expressions: Very Well

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Very Well

Modern Translation: Very Well

Afrikaans

Arabic

Breton

Bulgarian

Czech

Dutch

Esperanto

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Guarani

Hebrew

Hungarian

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Manx

Papiamen

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Quechua

Romanian