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well-pleased

well-pleased adjective: highly gratified or satisfied.

Adjective

well-pleased (not comparable)

  1. Highly gratified or satisfied.
    • “I also,” said the Tin Woodman, “am well pleased with my new heart; and, really, that was the only thing I wished in all the world.”1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “Away to the South”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC, page 212

Questions about well-pleased

What does well-pleased mean?
Well-pleased means highly gratified or satisfied.
What part of speech is well-pleased?
Well-pleased is an adjective.

Words near well-pleased in the dictionary

  1. well-organized
  2. well-padded
  3. well-paid
  4. well-placed
  5. well-planned
  6. well-pleased
  7. well-pointed
  8. well-posed
  9. well-posedness
  10. well-positioned
  11. well-practised

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