Japanese English Dictionary

日本語, にほんご - English

よい in English:

1. good


Good for you.
It's a good idea to study the language and culture of the country you're going to visit.
This is a sentence, that has the syllable count, of a good haiku.
Good morning. You're a bit late today, aren't you? "Yes, I ran into a bit of trouble."
A wide leather belt would look good with that dress.
The transfer student in the other class is a super good looking guy.
It's a good idea, to be sure, but it's hard to put it into practice.
The good harvest brought down the price of rice.
We had a good many anxious moments, but everything turned out all right in the end.
The true secret of writing a good letter is to write as if you were talking.
Generally speaking, a waiter in Japan gives good service.
Some people insist that television does more harm than good.
I hear that studying in the morning is more effective. Studying one hour in the morning is as good as three hours at night.
You can teach good manners to children without resorting to punishment.
His old company gave him the shaft. But I admire the way he turned bad luck into good and did even better with his own business.

English word "よい"(good) occurs in sets:

vocabulary n5

2. pleasant


He seems very pleasant.
He was a warm gentleman with a pleasant sense of humor.
It’s quite pleasant. You won’t need a jumper.
Sometimes it is pleasant to look back on one's childhood.
Bingley had never met with more pleasant people or prettier girls in his life.
Paul is so pleasant a person that everybody likes him at once.
Upon my honour, I never met with so many pleasant girls in my life as I have this evening; and there are several of them you see uncommonly pretty.
A camel is a gentle and pleasant tame beast whereof there are plenty in Africa especially in the Deserts of Libya, Numidia and Barbary by which Africans estimate their own wealth.
All in all, the excursion was pleasant.
Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners.
The restaurant is a pleasant out-of-the-way spot in New York.
Please refrain from making posts that make this site less pleasant to visit.
Typography is the discipline of using type to set texts into a form that is pleasant to read.
Watching the Chinese new year parade seated on the balcony is so pleasant.
Sleep is more pleasant than death. At least, there's not much difference.

3. well


Well, the night is quite long, isn't it?
The little kitten fell into the deep water well, so the children used a bucket and string to help it out.
Well, let's go.
I feel in my bones that they will never get along well together.
He did well in all subjects, particularly mathematics.
Both teams are well matched. The game will be an interesting one.
It is difficult to find a well paid permanent job.
Judging from his report, the project seems to be going well.
Parents are proud of their children when they do well in school.
His favorite baseball team is the Giants, but he likes the Lions as well.
Well, we've finished at last.
Children aren't naturally obedient any more than they're naturally well mannered.
Air as well as sunlight is, needless to say, indispensable to our daily life.
If you want to learn a foreign language well, you should speak that language with native speakers as often as you can.
If you go on drinking so much, you may well end up an alcoholic.