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wellwish

wellwish is the alternative form of well-wish.

Meaning of well-wish

Noun

well-wish (plural well-wishes)

  1. (plural-normally) An expression of positive regard and hopes for good fortune.
    • He greeted me always, the epitome of cheer, with some gnomic well-wish that half the time I could not make out.1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 245

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Forms of wellwish

Noun
pluralwellwishes
Verb
third-person singular presentwellwishes
present participlewellwishing
past participlewellwished
pastwellwished

Questions about wellwish

What is wellwish the alternative form of?
Wellwish is the alternative form of well-wish.

Words near wellwish in the dictionary

  1. Wellsville
  2. Wellsy
  3. wellwater
  4. wellwiller
  5. wellwillers
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