Well-adjusted

Definition

well 1 /wel/ adv ( better /'betǝ(r)/; best /best/) ၁။ (usu placed after the v , and after the direct object if the v is transitive) ေကာင္းစြာ။ ေကာင္းေကာင္းမြန္မြန္။ က်က်နန။ The children behaved well. ❍ She speaks English very well. ❍ The conference was very well organized. ❍ Does the job pay well? ❍ Well done/played/run! (ie expressing admiration for sb's achievement) ❍ I hope everything is going well (ie is satisfactory) with you. ❍ Things didn't go well for the company at first, but everything is fine now. ❍ The plan didn't work out very well. ❍ Investing in industry is money well spent. ❍ Do these colours go well (ie look nice) together? Compare ill adv ၁ ၂။ (က) အေကာင္း (ေျပာသည္၊ ျမင္သည္ စသည္)။ She spoke well of the nurses and the way she had been looked after. (ခ) ဂ႐ုတစိုက္။ ေကာင္းေကာင္းမြန္မြန္။ They treated me very well. Compare ill adv ၂ ၃။ ေကာင္းစြာ။ ေကာင္းေကာင္း။ Shake the mixture well. ❍ The surface must be well prepared before you start to paint. ❍ His shoes were always well polished. ❍ I don't know him very well. ❍ I'm well (ie fully) able to manage on my own. ၄။ (after can , could , may , might ) အလားအလာေကာင္းစြာ (ရိွသည္)။ …ေကာင္း …ဖြယ္ (ရိွသည္)။ အလြယ္တကူ။ You may well be right. ❍ I might well consider it later. ❍ I can't very well leave now. ❍ I couldn't very well refuse to help them, could I? ❍ ‘They've split up, you know. ’ ‘I can well believe it. ’ ❍ It may well be that the train is delayed. ၅။ ေတာ္ေတာ္။ I don't know exactly how old he is, but he's well over/past forty. ❍ She was driving at well over the speed limit. ❍ lean well forward/back in one's chair ❍ It was well worth waiting for. ❍ Temperatures are well up in the thirties. ၆။ ( sl ) သိပ္။ အရမ္း။ The film was well good. adj ( better /'betǝ(r)/ ; best /best/) ၁။ က်န္းမာ [ေသာ]။ ေနေကာင္း[ေသာ]။ I don't feel very well. ❍ Is she well enough to travel? ❍ Get well soon! (eg on a card) ❍ I'm better now, thank you. ❍ He's not a well man. ❍ healthy ၂။ ေက်နပ္ဖြယ္ရာျဖစ္[ေသာ]။ အေျခအေနေကာင္း [ေသာ]။ It seems that all is not well at home. ၃။ သင့္ေလ်ာ္[ေသာ]။ ေကာင္း[ေသာ]။ It would be well to start early. interj ၁။ (အံ့ဩျခင္း၊ ေဒါသျဖစ္ျခင္းကို ျပေသာစကား)။ ကိုင္း။ ကဲ။ Well, who would have thought it? ❍ Well, well—I would never have guessed it! ❍ Well, what a thing to say! ၂။ (စိတ္သက္သာရာရမႈကို ျပေသာစကား။ ဟင္းခ်ေသာ စကား)။ ေတာ္ပါေသးရဲ႕။ Well, thank goodness that's over! ❍ Well, here we are at last! ၃။ (also oh well ) (မတတ္သာ၍ လက္ခံရသည့္သေဘာကိုျပေသာ စကား)။ အင္းေလ။ Oh well, there's nothing we can do about it. ❍ Well, it can't be helped. ၄။ (also very well ) (လက္ခံေၾကာင္း၊ နားလည္ေၾကာင္းျပ စကား)။ ေကာင္းၿပီေလ။ ဟုတ္ပါၿပီ။ Very well, then, I'll accept your offer. ၅။ (စိတ္ မပါ့တပါႏွင့္ သေဘာတူေၾကာင္းျပေသာ စကား)။ ေအးပါ။ အင္းပါ။ Well, you may be right. ၆။ (စကားစျပန္ေကာက္ရာ၌ ျဖစ္ေစ၊ စကားလမ္း ေၾကာင္း ေျပာင္းလိုရာ၌ျဖစ္ေစ သံုး ေသာစကား)။ ေအး။ အင္း။ အဲ။ Well, as I was saying, … ❍ Well, the next day… ❍ Well, let's move on to the next item. ၇။ (မေသခ်ာ၊ ဇေဝဇဝါ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းျပစကား)။ ‘Do you want to come?’ ‘Well, I'm not sure. ’ ၈။ (အေျပာ ေစာင့္ေနေၾကာင္း ေမးခြန္းသေဘာ၌ သံုးေသာစကား)။ ကဲ။ Well, are you going to tell us or not? ၉။ (စကားလက္စ သတ္ေသာစကား)။ ကဲ။ Well, I'd better be going now. ၁၀။ (စကားဆက္ကို စဥ္းစားအခ်ိန္ယူရာ၌ သံုးေလ့ရိွေသာစကား)။ အင္း…။ အဲ…။ I think it happened, well, towards the end of last summer. ၁၁။ (ဘြာခတ္ေၾကာင္းျပေသာစကား)။ အဲ။ အဲေလ။ အဲေလေယာင္လို႔။ There were thousands of people there — well, several hundred anyway. ❏ all very well (for sb)… [ IDM ] ( infml ironic ) (တစ္ဦးဦး၏ ေျပာပံု၊ လုပ္ပံု အခ်ဳိးမေျပ၍ စိတ္မခ်မ္းမသာ၊ မေက်မနပ္ျဖစ္ရျခင္းကို ၫႊန္းသည္။ ) ေကာင္းပါေလ့။ ေကာင္းကြာ။ It's all very well (for you) to say you want a new car, but I'm the one who will have to pay for it. ❏ all well and good [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေကာင္းေတာ့ ေကာင္းပါရဲ႕၊ ဒါေပမဲ့။ An extra day's leave is all well and good, but what about the bonus we were promised? ❏ as well (as sb/sth) [ IDM ] လည္း။ လည္းပဲ။ Are they coming as well? ❍ He grows flowers as well as vegetables. ❍ She is a talented musician as well as being a photographer. ❍ also ❏ (just) as well (to do sth) [ IDM ] (…တာ) ေကာင္းတယ္။ It would be (just) as well to phone and say we may be late. ❏ be well out of sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) မပါမိတာ ဘုရားမတာပဲ။ ❏ be well up in sth [ IDM ] ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား သိထားသည္။ He's well up in all the latest developments in the industry. ❏ do oneself well [ IDM ] (ကိုယ့္ကိုယ္ကိုယ္) ဇိမ္က်က် စည္းစိမ္ခံသည္။ ❏ do well [ IDM ] ၁။ ေအာင္ျမင္သည္။ ဟန္က်သည္။ အေျခအေနေကာင္းသည္။ Jack is doing very well at school. ❍ The business did well last year. ၂။ (only in the continuous tenses) နာလန္ထသည္။ ေနေကာင္းသည္။ အေျခအေန ေကာင္းသည္။ Mother and baby are doing well (ie after a birth). ❏ do well by sb [ IDM ] ရက္ရက္ေရာေရာ ေကြၽးေမြးသည္၊ ျပဳစုသည္။ ❏ do well for oneself [ IDM ] ေအာင္ျမင္သည္။ ႀကီးပြား ခ်မ္းသာသည္။ ❏ do well out of sb/sth [ IDM ] … မွ ေငြေၾကး အက်ဳိး အျမတ္ရသည္၊ စီးပြားျဖစ္သည္။ ❏ do well to do sth [ IDM ] …လွ်င္ေကာင္းမည္။ …တာ ေကာင္းသည္။ He would do well to concentrate more on his work. ❍ You did well to sell when the price was high. ❏ leave/let well alone; ( US ) let well enough alone [ IDM ] သူအရိွန္ႏွင့္သူရိွပါေစ။ သူ႕ဟာသူ ဟုတ္ေနတာ ေနပါေစ။ Any changes in the rule would be very difficult to implement so it's better to leave well alone. ❏ may/might (just) as well do sth [ IDM ] အေျခအေနအရ အသင့္ေလ်ာ္ဆံုးျဖစ္သည္။ Since nobody else wants the job, we might as well let him have it. ❏ very well [ IDM ] ေကာင္းပါၿပီ။ ေကာင္းၿပီ။ ဟုတ္ကဲ့ပါ။ Very well, doctor, I'll try to take more exercise. ❍ Oh, very well, if you insist. ❏ well-adjusted adj ခ်င့္ခ်ိန္တတ္ေသာ။ work experience that helps young people mature into well-adjusted adults. ❏ well-advised adj လိမၼာပါးနပ္ေသာ။ a well-advised move ❍ You would be well advised to (ie You ought to) reconsider your decision. ❏ well and truly [ IDM ] ( infml ) တကယ့္ကို။ လံုးဝ။ လံုးလံုးလ်ားလ်ား။ By that time we were well and truly lost. ❏ well-appointed adj လိုေလေသးမရိွေသာ။ a well-appointed/hotel/apartment/office. ❏ well away [ IDM ] ၁။ ခရီးအေတာ္ေရာက္သည္။ By the end of the month, we'll be well away. ၂။ ( infml ) လူမွန္း မသိေအာင္ မူးသည္။ ကုလားေသ ကုလားေမာ အိပ္သည္။ ❏ well-balanced adj (က) တည္ၾကည္မွ်တေသာ။ healthy, well-balanced young people ❍ You need to be very well balanced to cope with the stress of a job like that. (ခ) အာဟာရဓာတ္ မွ်တေသာ။ ❏ well-behaved adj လိမၼာေသာ။ ဣေႁႏၵရေသာ။ a well-behaved child/dog. ❏ well-being n [U] သုခ။ economic/psychological well-being ❍ have a sense of well-being. ❏ well-born adj ေဆြႀကီးမ်ဳိးႀကီး။ ❏ well-bred adj ရည္မြန္ေသာ။ လိမၼာပိရိေသာ။ She was too well-bred to show her disappointment. Compare ill-bred ❏ well-built adj (က) ( usu approv ) ကိုယ္လံုးကိုယ္ေပါက္ ေတာင့္ေသာ။ ထြားက်ဳိင္းသန္မာေသာ။ (ခ) (အေဆာက္အအံု) ခိုင္ခံ့ေသာ။ ❏ well-connected adj အဆက္အသြယ္ေကာင္းေသာ။ ဝင္ဆံ့ ေပါက္ေရာက္ ေသာ။ ❏ well-cut adj (အဝတ္အထည္) ပံုပန္းက်ေသာ။ a well-cut suit. ❏ well-defined adj ရွင္းလင္းျပတ္သားေသာ။ a well-defined pattern. ❏ well-disposed adj ~ (towards sb/sth) (က) ေထာက္ထားညႇာတာေသာ။ ခင္မင္ေသာ။ ေစတနာ ေကာင္းေသာ။ She seemed well disposed towards us. (ခ) သေဘာတူ ေထာက္ခံေသာ။ ကူညီတတ္ေသာ။ The committee are well disposed towards the idea. Compare ill-disposed ❏ well-done adj ႏူးေသာ။ နပ္ေသာ။ He prefers his steak well done. Compare rare 2 , underdone ❏ well-dressed adj က်က်နနဝတ္ထားေသာ။ ေခတ္မီမီ စမတ္က်က်။ This is what today's well-dressed man is wearing. ❏ well-earned adj ရသင့္ရထိုက္ေသာ။ a well-earned rest ❍ well-earned praise. ❏ well-established adj ခိုင္မာေနေသာ။ a well-established firm ❍ well-established procedures. ❏ well-fed adj ေကာင္းစြာေကြၽးေမြးထားေသာ။ The cat looked sleek and well fed. ❏ well-founded adj အေျခအျမစ္ရိွေသာ၊ well-founded suspicions. ❏ well-groomed adj သားနားသပ္ရပ္စြာ ဝတ္ဆင္ထားေသာ။ ေၾကာ့ေၾကာ့ေမာ့ေမာ့။ ❏ well-heeled adj ( infml ) ေငြေပါေသာ။ a restaurant with many well-heeled customers. ❏ well I never (did)! [ IDM ] ( infml ) (အံ့ဩ စိတ္ပ်က္မႈကို ျပေသာစကား)။ ဟာကြာ။ ေဟာေတာ္။ ❏ well in (with sb) [ IDM ] ( infml ) မိတ္ေဆြရင္းခ်ာလို သေဘာထားသည္။ တရင္းတႏီွး ဆက္ဆံသည္။ She seems to be well in with the right people. ❏ well-informed adj အၾကားအျမင္မ်ားေသာ။ မ်က္စိႀကီး နားႀကီး။ well-informed opinion/quarters/sources. ❏ well-intentioned adj စိတ္ရင္းေစတနာေကာင္းေသာ။ She reacted angrily to my well-intentioned remarks. ❍ He's well-intentioned but not very good at getting things done. ❏ well-kept adj ေကာင္းစြာထားရိွေသာ။ rows of houses with well-kept gardens ❍ ( fig ) a well-kept secret. ❏ well-known adj လူတကာသိေသာ။ လူသိမ်ားေသာ။ well-known actors/facts/landmarks/quotations ❍ Her books are not very well known. ❏ well-meaning adj ေစတနာေကာင္းရိွေသာ။ ေစတနာထား ေသာ။ She began to resent the constant enquiries from well-meaning friends and relatives. ❏ well-meant adj ေစတနာႏွင့္လုပ္ေသာ၊ ေျပာေသာ။ ❏ well off [ IDM ] ခ်မ္းသာေသာ။ His family is not very well off. ❍ Some people don't know when they're well off (ie do not appreciate their fortunate position). ❍ As usual, it's the less well-off who will suffer most. ထံုးစံ အတိုင္း ဆင္းရဲသားေတြပဲ ပိုအထိနာတာပဲ။ ❏ well off for sth [ IDM ] ေပါမ်ားေသာ။ We're well off for storage space in the new flat. ❏ well-oiled adj (က) ( sl ) ေရခ်ိန္ကိုက္ေသာ။ ေထြ ေနေသာ။ He was already well-oiled before he arrived. (ခ) (လုပ္ငန္းကိုင္ငန္း) ေခ်ာေမြ႕ေသာ။ the well-oiled political machine. ❏ well-preserved adj (က) အရြယ္တင္ေသာ။ (ခ) (ေရွး ပစၥည္း) အေကာင္းအတိုင္း ရိွေသးေသာ။ a well-preserved Renaissance painting. ❏ well-read adj စာဖတ္နာေသာ။ စာေပဗဟုသုတ ႂကြယ္ေသာ။ ❏ well-rounded adj (က) ကိုယ္လံုးၾကည့္ေကာင္းေသာ။ (ခ) အဘက္ဘက္တြင္ အရည္အခ်င္းျပည့္ဝေသာ။ educating children to be well-rounded individuals. (ဂ) ဘက္စံု။ a well-rounded education. ❏ well-run adj စနစ္တက် ကြပ္ကဲစီမံထားေသာ။ a well-run hotel/company. ❏ well-spoken adj (စကားအရာ) ေခ်ငံေျပျပစ္ေသာ။ သုဘာ သိတ။ ❏ well-thought-of adj ေလးစားခံရေသာ။ အထင္အျမင္ ေကာင္းေသာ။ He is well thought of in government circles. ❏ well-thought-out adj ေကာင္းစြာ ႀကိဳတင္စီစဥ္ ထားေသာ။ ❏ well-thumbed adj အဖတ္မ်ား၍ ဖြတ္ဖြတ္ေၾကေနေသာ (စာအုပ္)။ ❏ well-timed adj အခ်ိန္အခါႏွင့္ အံကိုက္။ ခ်ိန္ကိုက္။ Your remarks were certainly well timed. a well-timed intervention. Compare ILL-TIMED ❏ well-to-do adj ႂကြယ္ဝခ်မ္းသာေသာ။ ❏ well-tried adj စိတ္ခ်လက္ခ်သံုးႏိုင္ေသာ။ ပြဲေတြ႕။ a well-tried method/remedy. ❏ well-trodden adj အေခါက္ေခါက္အခါခါ သြားထားေသာ။ လမ္းဖုန္ေနေသာ။ ❏ well-turned adj ( fml ) ေခ်ငံေျပျပစ္ေသာ။ a well-turned compliment/phrase. ❏ well-versed adj ~ (in sth) ေနာေက်ေသာ။ well-versed in the art of flattery. ❏ well-wisher n ေစတနာထားသူ။ ေစတနာရွင္။ They received many letters of sympathy from well-wishers. ❏ well-worn adj (က) (အသံုးအႏႈန္း) ဖန္တစ္ရာေတေနေသာ။ ဆီသည္မလက္သုတ္ဖတ္ျဖစ္ေနေသာ (ခ) (သံုးဖန္မ်ား၍)ေဟာင္း ႏြမ္းစုတ္ျပတ္ေနေသာ။ a well-worn jacket/briefcase. well 2 /wel/ n ၁။ (က) ေရတြင္း။ dig/drill/sink a well ❍ The villagers get their water from a well. (ခ) ေရနံတြင္း။ ၂။ (အထပ္ျမင့္ အေဆာက္အအံုတြင္ အထပ္မ်ားကို ျဖတ္၍ အထက္ ေအာက္ တစ္ေျဖာင့္တည္း ေဖာက္ထားေသာ ဓာတ္ေလွကား တြင္း၊ ေလဆိုးထုတ္ေပါက္ စသည္) တြင္း၊ ေပါက္။ ၃။ ( Brit ) တရားသူႀကီးေရွ႕၌ ေရွ႕ေနမ်ားအတြက္ ေနရာ။ See also INK-WELL v ~ (out/up) လွ်ံထြက္သည္။ ျပည့္လာသည္။ Anger was welling up inside him.

Examples

1. She speaks Japanese well.
2. [very/rather/fairly/quite well] : He plays the piano very well for someone of his age.
3. The boys were not behaving very well.
4. [pretty well] : I can see pretty well without my glasses.
5. Shake the can well before opening.
6. I don’t know these people very well.
7. [well aware] : Rostov was well aware of the scandal he was creating.
8. [well worth] : A trip to the new museum is well worth the effort.
9. [well after/before] : Pete left the party well before you got there.
10. [well ahead/behind] : Paula finished the race well ahead of the other runners.
11. I'm not very well up on international affairs.