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wells

noun , plural of well

Synonyms and Antonyms of wells

1 a point or place at which something is invented or provided

his quirkily dysfunctional family proved to be a bottomless well of inspiration for the novelist

Synonyms of wells

cradles, fonts, fountains, fountainheads, origins, roots, seedbeds, sources, springs, wellsprings

Words Related to wells

beginnings, commencements, dawns, day ones, geneses, get-goes (also git-goes), inceptions, incipiences, incipiencies, kickoffs, launches, mornings, nascences, nascencies, onsets, outsets, starts, thresholds

baselines, first bases, ground zeros, square ones

2 a small often deep body of water

the spot where the spring bubbles up to the surface and forms a deep well

Synonyms of wells

billabongs [Australian], meres [chiefly British], pools, puddles, stanks [British dialect]

Words Related to wells

basins, holes, sinkholes

lakes, ponds, water holes

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