good vs well
Definitions
noun
- that which is pleasing or valuable or useful
- benefit
- articles of commerce
- moral excellence or admirableness
adverb
- completely and absolutely (`good' is sometimes used informally for `thoroughly')
- (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')
adjective
- not left to spoil
- of moral excellence
- having the normally expected amount
- having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
- generally admired
Examples
It's good to have a cry sometimes.
Blackpool Scorpions notched their first away win of the season against a good attacking Leigh team.
Before we did anything we wrote and rewrote the script until we felt what we had got written down was a really good story.
Definitions
adjective
- wise or advantageous and hence advisable
- resulting favorably
- in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury
adverb
- (used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully
- without unusual distress or resentment; with good humor
- with skill or in a pleasing manner
- favorably; with approval
- thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form
noun
- an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway)
- a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid
- an abundant source
- a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine
- 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
verb
- come up, as of a liquid
Examples
He was a cute little beggar, looked like you as well.
Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight.
It also seems to carry the well-tempered glow of late Woody Allen with a well-satisfied view of late life and with few illusions.