Well-intentioned

Date "well-intentioned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1755. (references)

Synonyms within Context: Well-intentioned

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Benevolence	Good-natured, well-natured; spleenless; sympathizing, sympathetic; complaisant; (courteous); well-meant, well-intentioned.
Virtue	Adjective: virtuous, good; innocent; meritorious, deserving, worthy, desertful, correct; dutiful, duteous; moral; right, righteous, right-minded; well-intentioned, creditable, laudable, commendable, praiseworthy; above all praise, beyond all praise; excellent, admirable; sterling, pure, noble; whole-souled.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Well-intentioned

English words defined with "well-intentioned": Intentioned ♦ well-meaning, well-meant. (references)

Specialty definitions using "well-intentioned": Hanlon's Razor. (references)

Commercial Usage: Well-intentioned

Domain	Title
Books	Well-Intentioned Dragons: Ministering to Problem People in the Church (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Well-intentioned

Subject	Topic	Quote
Political Economy	Indonesia	While well-intentioned in theory, the implementation of decentralization has been uneven and many issues involving power- and revenue-sharing between the central and local governments remain unresolved. (references)
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Speeches: Well-intentioned

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	If there are any circumstances in the law which consistently with its main design may be so varied as to remove any well-intentioned objections that may happen to exist, it will consist with a wise moderation to make the proper variations.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	As we do, we must not repeat the well-intentioned errors of our past.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Usage Frequency: Well-intentioned

"Well-intentioned" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Well-intentioned" is used about 85 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-intentioned

Language		Translations for "well-intentioned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		jó szándékú (meritorious, well meaning). (various references)

Pig Latin		ell-intentionedway

Russian		благонамеренный (right-minded, right-thinking, well meaning, well-meaning). (various references)

Vietnamese		với ý tốt (well-meant). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Rhyming with "Well-intentioned"

Words rhyming with "well-intentioned" (pronounced 'Well`-in*ten"tioned'): Affectioned, Bastioned, Carnationed, Conversationed, unconditioned, Underproportioned, unquestioned. (additional references)

Anagrams: Well-intentioned

Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-i-i-l-l-n-n-n-o-t-t-w"
	-4 letters: intentioned.
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