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well-intentioned

well-intentioned adjective: having good intentions, even if producing unfortunate results.

Adjective

well-intentioned (comparative better-intentioned or more well-intentioned, superlative best-intentioned or most well-intentioned)

  1. Having good intentions, even if producing unfortunate results.
    • A 21-Valyrian steel dagger salute to Paddy Considine, who makes his exit from House Of The Dragon this week with a thunderclap of a performance. “The Lord of the Tides” is the swan song for his King Viserys I Targaryen, a well-intentioned but indecisive man who waited until the very last day of his...2022 October 10, Jenna Scherer, “House Of The Dragon drops its best episode yet”, in AV Club

well-intentioned meaning in Tamil and Kannada

well-intentioned in Tamil

நல்ல நோக்கமுடைய, நன்னோக்குள்ள

well-intentioned in Kannada

ಸದುದ್ದೇಶಿತ, ಸದುದ್ದಿಷ್ಟ

Synonyms of well-intentioned

Antonyms

Forms of well-intentioned

comparativebetter-intentioned
comparativemore well-intentioned
superlativebest-intentioned
superlativemost well-intentioned

Questions about well-intentioned

What does well-intentioned mean?
Well-intentioned means having good intentions, even if producing unfortunate results.
What is well-intentioned in Tamil?
Well-intentioned in Tamil is நல்ல நோக்கமுடைய, நன்னோக்குள்ள. See Well-intentioned meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is well-intentioned?
Well-intentioned is an adjective.

Words near well-intentioned in the dictionary

  1. well-house
  2. well-houses
  3. well-hung
  4. well-informed
  5. well-intended
  6. well-intentioned
  7. well-kempt
  8. well-kemptness
  9. well-kept
  10. well-knit
  11. well-known

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Adapted from Wiktionary: well-intentioned (page history and authors); well-intentioned (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); well-intentioned (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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