Well-meaning

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Benevolence	Adjective: benevolent; kind, kindly; well-meaning; amiable; obliging, accommodating, indulgent, gracious, complacent, good-humored.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Non-Fiction Usage: Well-meaning

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Do you have the mumps? No! People with mumps have a very different condition, even though both involve swelling of the sides of your face. Some people who ask questions are well-meaning, some are curious, and some are just plain rude. You don't have to answer if you don't want to. You can just ignore the question. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Well-meaning

"Well-meaning" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Well-meaning" is used about 115 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translations: Well-meaning

Language		Translations for "well-meaning"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Finnish		hyväntahtoinen (benevolent, kind), hyväätarkoittava. (various references)

Korean		잘 의미. (various references)

Pig Latin		ell-meaningway

Russian		благонамеренный (right-minded, right-thinking, well meaning, well-intentioned), имеющий хорошие намерения. (various references)

Swedish		välmenande (well intentioned, well meaning). (various references)

Vietnamese		có thiện chí (favorable, favourable). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Rhyming with "Well-meaning"

Words rhyming with "well-meaning" (pronounced 'Well"-mean`ing'): Aforegoing, Almsgiving, Backbiting, Batfowling, Birdcatching, Bird's-nesting, Bluestocking, Bookbinding, Bookkeeping, Bookselling, Boxhauling, Bricklaying, Broadspreading, Bushfighting, Bushwhacking, By-drinking, By-turning, Cabinetmaking, Cat-harping, Cheeseparing, Childbearing, Churchgoing, Clear-seeing, Clear-shining, Costeaning, Cowleeching, Crib-biting, Cross-reading, Cross-tining, Cross-vaulting, Deerstalking, Findfaulting, Fly-catching, Forespeaking, forthcoming, Forthputing, Fox-hunting, free-living, Free-milling, freethinking, Gaingiving, Glass-gazing, god-fearing, good-looking, Handwriting, haymaking, heartbreaking, heartrending, high-sounding, Home-coming. (additional references)

Anagrams: Well-meaning

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-l-l-m-n-n-w"
	-1 letter: enamelling.
	-2 letters: enameling, meningeal.
	-3 letters: liegeman, weanling.
	-4 letters: aneling, eanling, enamine, galilee, gallein, geminal, gleeman, leaning, lineage, lineman, linemen, malling, manille, meaning, melange, melanin, melling, mewling, mileage, millage, walling, weaning, weening, weigela, welling, wingman, wingmen.
	-5 letters: allege, aweing, awning, enamel, engine, enigma, gamine, genial, inwall, laming, lawine, lawing, lawmen, legman, legmen, lienal, linage, lineal, lingam.
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