as well

== English == === Alternative forms === (archaic) aswell, (obsolete) aswel === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /æzwɛl/, [æˑzˈwɛːɫ] IPA(key): /æzˈwɛl/, [æˑzˈwɛːɫ] IPA(key): /əzˈwɛl/ Rhymes: -ɛl === Adverb === as well (not comparable) (idiomatic) In addition; also. Synonyms: additionally, too, in the bargain To the same effect. (South Africa) Me too. (UK, colloquial) An intensifier. Actually; really. ==== Usage notes ==== In Canada, it may be used either at the start of a phrase or at the end. The South African use is stressed on “as”. The intensifier use is often phatic, divorced from any sense of an addition happening, but in some utterances the degree of phaticness is ambiguous. The non-additive nature can seem odd to speakers of other varieties until they realize that the term can be used this way in British English. ==== Coordinate terms ==== (also or equally): no less ==== Derived terms ==== as well as may as well might as well ==== Translations ==== === References === “as well”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. === Anagrams === Sewall