well-meaning
adjEtymology
From well + meaning.
- inherited from mening
Definitions
With good intentions, often used to reflect positively on a negative outcome or situation.
- The professor is well-meaning enough, but he usually ruins things one way or another.
- In the first scene, he bites the arm of a well-meaning counselor at the group home and dashes out of the building, all in a vain attempt to locate the father who abandoned him.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for well-meaning. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA