Healthy vs. Well — What's the Difference?

In a good physical or mental condition; in good health

A deep hole or shaft sunk into the earth to obtain water, oil, gas, or brine.

Possessing good health

A container or reservoir for a liquid, such as ink.

Conducive to good health; healthful

A place where water issues from the earth; a spring or fountain.

Indicative of sound, rational thinking or frame of mind

A mineral spring.

Sizable; considerable

Wells A watering place; a spa.

So as to promote one's health; in a healthy way

An abundant source

Enjoying good health; well; free from disease or disorder.

An open space extending vertically through the floors of a building, as for stairs or ventilation.

Conducive to health.

An enclosure in a ship's hold for the pumps.

Evincing health.

A compartment or recessed area in a ship, used for stowage

(figuratively) Significant, hefty; beneficial.

A part of a ship's weather deck enclosed between two watertight bulkheads.

Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy child; a healthy plant.

A cistern with a perforated bottom in the hold of a fishing vessel for keeping fish alive.

Evincing health; as, a healthy pulse; a healthy complexion.

An enclosed space for receiving and holding something, such as the wheels of an airplane when retracted.

Conducive to health; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthy exercise; a healthy climate.

Chiefly British The central space in a law court, directly in front of the judge's bench, where the counsel or solicitor sits.

Having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease;

To rise to the surface, ready to flow

Financially secure and functioning well;

To rise or surge from an inner source

Promoting health; healthful;

To pour forth.

Physically and mentally sound or healthy;

In a good or proper manner

Exercising or showing good judgment;

Skillfully or proficiently

Satisfactorily or sufficiently

Successfully or effectively

In a comfortable or affluent manner

In a manner affording benefit or gain; advantageously

With reason or propriety; reasonably

In all likelihood; indeed

In a prudent or sensible manner

In a close or familiar manner

In a favorable or approving manner

Thoroughly; completely

Perfectly; clearly

To a suitable or appropriate degree

To a considerable extent or degree

With care or attention

Entirely; fully

In a satisfactory condition; right or proper

Not ailing, infirm, or diseased; healthy.

Cured or healed, as a wound.

Of or characterized by the maintenance of good health practices. Often used in combination

Advisable; prudent

Fortunate; good

Used to introduce a remark, resume a narrative, or fill a pause during conversation.

Used to express surprise.

(manner) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.

(manner) Completely, fully.

(degree) To a significant degree.

Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).

In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.

In good health.

(hypercorrect) Good, content.

(uncommon) Prudent; good; well-advised.

Good to eat; tasty, delicious.

(Hiberno-English) Used as a greeting

A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.

A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.

A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.

(figurative) A source of supply.

(nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.

(nautical) The cockpit of a sailboat.

(nautical) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.

(nautical) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.

(military) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.

(architecture) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.

The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.

(metalworking) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.

A well drink.

(video games) The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.

(biology) In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.

(intransitive) To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.

(intransitive) To have something seep out of the surface.

An issue of water from the earth; a spring; a fountain.

A pit or hole sunk into the earth to such a depth as to reach a supply of water, generally of a cylindrical form, and often walled with stone or bricks to prevent the earth from caving in.

A shaft made in the earth to obtain oil or brine.

Fig.: A source of supply; fountain; wellspring.

An inclosure in the middle of a vessel's hold, around the pumps, from the bottom to the lower deck, to preserve the pumps from damage and facilitate their inspection.

A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.

An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.

The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.

To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.

To pour forth, as from a well.

In a good or proper manner; justly; rightly; not ill or wickedly.

Suitably to one's condition, to the occasion, or to a proposed end or use; suitably; abundantly; fully; adequately; thoroughly.

Fully or about; - used with numbers.

In such manner as is desirable; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favorably; advantageously; conveniently.

Considerably; not a little; far.

Good in condition or circumstances; desirable, either in a natural or moral sense; fortunate; convenient; advantageous; happy; as, it is well for the country that the crops did not fail; it is well that the mistake was discovered.

Being in health; sound in body; not ailing, diseased, or sick; healthy; as, a well man; the patient is perfectly well.

Being in favor; favored; fortunate.

Safe; as, a chip warranted well at a certain day and place.

A deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine

A cavity or vessel used to contain liquid

An abundant source;

An open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway)

An enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps

Come up;

In good health especially after having suffered illness or injury;

Resulting favorably;

Wise or advantageous and hence advisable;

(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well');

Thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form;

Indicating high probability; in all likelihood;

(used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully;

To a suitable or appropriate extent or degree;

Favorably; with approval;

To a great extent or degree;

With great or especially intimate knowledge;

With prudence or propriety;

With skill or in a pleasing manner;

In a manner affording benefit or advantage;

In financial comfort;

Without unusual distress or resentment; with good humor;