well-being

Questions about well-being

What does well-being mean?

well-being means "a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous".

How many syllables are in well-being?

well-being has 3 syllables: well--be-ing. The stress falls on "be". In IPA it is /ˌwɛlˈbiɪŋ/.

What is another word for well-being?

Close synonyms include wellbeing, welfare, upbeat, eudaemonia, eudaimonia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of well-being?

The recorded antonyms are ill-being.

Is well-being a common word?

well-being is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with well-being?

2 words rhyme with well-being. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.