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well done

well done adjective: performed well.

Adjective

well done (comparative more well done, superlative most well done)

  1. (idiomatic) Performed well.
    • It was a job well done.
    • "We've never looked on the Borders Railway as it stands as a job well done. It's part one of a job well done."2020 May 6, Graeme Pickering, “Borders Railway: time for the next step”, in Rail, page 52
  2. Well-cooked.
    1. (specifically) Cooked through to the center.
      • She liked her steaks well done.

Interjection

  1. An exclamation of praise or endorsement of an achievement.
    • Well done, John. Here's a biscuit for you.

well done meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

well done in Hindi

exclamation of praise
शाबाश śābāś

well done in Tamil

சபாஷ்

well done in Urdu

exclamation of praise
شاباش śābāś, آفْرِین āfrīn, اَحْسَنْت ahsant

well done in Bengali

exclamation of praise
শাবাশ śabaś
More languagesFewer languages
well done in Malayalam
ബലേ balē
well done in Punjabi
ਸ਼ਾਬਾਸ਼ śābāś
well done in Sanskrit
साधु sādhu
well done in Arabic
أَحْسَنْتَ ʔaḥsanta, أَحْسَنْتِ ʔaḥsanti, عَفَارِم ʕafārim
well done in Malay
syabas
well done in Vietnamese
chín, làm tốt lắm

Synonyms of well done

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Antonyms

Forms of well done

comparativemore well done
superlativemost well done
alternative formwell-done
alternative formwelldone

Questions about well done

What does well done mean?
Well done means performed well.
What is well done in Hindi?
Well done in Hindi is शाबाश (śābāś). See Well done meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is well done?
Well done can be an adjective or an interjection.

Words near well done in the dictionary

  1. well cars
  2. well covered
  3. well deck
  4. well decks
  5. well deserved
  6. well done
  7. well drain
  8. well drains
  9. well dressing
  10. well drilling
  11. well drink

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: well done (page history and authors); well done (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ബലേ (Malayalam) (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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