Usually means: Intending to do good acts.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word well-meaning:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. well-meaning: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. well-meaning: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. well-meaning, well-meaning: Collins English Dictionary
  4. well-meaning: Vocabulary.com
  5. Well-Meaning, Well-meaning, well-meaning: Wordnik
  6. well-meaning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. well-meaning: Wiktionary
  8. well-meaning: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. well-meaning: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. well-meaning: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. well-meaning: Dictionary.com
  12. Well-meaning: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. well-meaning: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. well-meaning: Rhymezone
  15. Well-meaning: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. well-meaning: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. well-meaning: Free Dictionary
  18. well-meaning: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. well-meaning: Dictionary/thesaurus

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. well-meaning: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  With good intentions, often used to reflect positively on a negative outcome or situation.

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