View synonyms for get-well

get-well

[ get-wel ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Recover from illness, as in I hope you get well soon . This idiom uses well in the sense of “in good health,” a usage dating from the mid-1500s.

Mail the elementary school classroom get-well cards, bring on the casseroles, plant the flowers in the yard.

There is yet another close resemblance between the get-rich-quick and the get-well-quick systems.

In the same way, the get-well-quick practitioner profits from the conquests of material science.

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