wellish

comparative more wellish · superlative most wellish

1. Somewhat well; reasonable; adequate.

   Sermon being done, how are you? All wellish here.

   2005, Lord Henry Cockburn Cockburn, Alan S. Bell, Lord Cockburn: Selected Letters, page 111

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   Come, I say, old boy, you are going it strongish: rot me, if the garden wasn't pretty wellish.

   1849, Lacy's Acting Edition of Plays, Dramas, Farces and Extravagances, page 25

   Knowing human nature as we do we can safely prophesy that the State Council will merrily go its round of life in spite of the distant rumblings of the Boycott war-cry from the rather wellish dry North

   1933, Samuel Ernest N. Nicholas, Commercial Ceylon, page 295

   All might be well, or wellish, if Bill Bryden 's production had more tension and emotional intensity.

   2006, Theatre Record, page 139

2. Somewhat well; in okay but not great health.

   The Emperor looked wellish but a bad colour.

   1980, Sir Edward Goschen, Christopher Henry Durham Howard, The diary of Edward Goschen, 1900-1914, page 205

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   Sometimes I feel wellish here, sometimes very bad; never well, I never can be well again without the miracle.

   2003, Robert Frost, Edward Thomas, Matthew Spencer, Elected Friends: Robert Frost & Edward Thomas to One Another

   The operation went without difficulty and two days later he was longing for the simple pleasures of life: 'I am feeling quite wellish & am longing for some sausages & mashed [potatoes] – which I shan't get';

   2016, Norman Sherry, The Life of Graham Greene Volume 1: 1904-1939

comparative more wellish · superlative most wellish

1. Somewhat well; in a fairly satisfactory manner.

   He knew his letters pretty wellish, but no more.

   1885, Henry Ward Beecher, The Christian Union - Volume 31, page 28

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   “Fine,” I relent. “Yes. It's going wellish.”

   2014, Skylar Dorset, The Girl Who Read the Stars

   Prior to that day, everything I had tried on my healing journey hadn't worked very well or had only worked “wellish” enough.

   2019, Anita Swanson Speake, Heartsong: Living with a Dying Heart: A Memoir