Usually means: Intend to do good things.
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  1. mean well: Merriam-Webster
  2. mean well: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mean well: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. mean well: Dictionary.com
  5. mean well: Wiktionary

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  1. mean well: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mean well)

▸ verb:  To have good intentions; to do with a noble or positive purpose in mind.

Similar:
mean, mean to, purpose, intention, have a mind to, do good, mind, aim at, foreintend, purport, more...

Opposite:
malicious, malevolent, spiteful

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Similar:
mean, mean to, purpose, intention, have a mind to, do good, mind, aim at, foreintend, purport, more...

Opposite:
malicious, malevolent, spiteful



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