Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

well-covered

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.80 in modern English

Syllables: well--cov-ered
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Amply equipped or provisioned, especially with respect to a place where food is served.

adj

Fat, corpulent, full-figured.

British usage

Example Sentences

"He kept shaking Mr Gibson's hand all the time till he had placed him, nothing loth, at the well-covered dining-table."
"How are you to bid a starving man to wait when you put him down at a well-covered board?"
"That simple dancing of well-covered matrons, laying aside for an hour the cares of house and dairy, remembering but not affecting youth, not jealous but proud of the young maidens by their side […] it would be a pleasant variety to see all that sometimes."
""She wasn't much of a skeleton as I remember her," murmured Euphemia, "extremely well-covered.""
"The sculptor Botero—influenced perhaps by Maillol’s love of well covered women—created in 1981 an overweight, stumpy couple."

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

more well-covered (comparative) most well-covered (superlative) well covered (alternative)

Phrases

well-coveredness

Questions

What does well-covered mean?: Amply equipped or provisioned, especially with respect to a place where food is served.

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