hail-fellow-well-met
- adjective
- Archaic
- At the party, her hail-fellow-well-met attitude made everyone feel welcome and relaxed.
Even the most grandiose extroverted, hail fellow well met narcissist will isolate.
- Even the most grandiose extroverted, hail fellow well met narcissist will isolate.
Examples
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Balastro usually had the hail-fellow-well-met air so many of his countrymen could don with ease.
Fiction book (2002) -
I had a long talk with Sean, and, see, Sean Astin is the kind of guy, "hail-fellow-well-met."
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I, like you, was once considered a hail-fellow-well-met!
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At best, he was a cheerful, if not very bright, hail-fellow-well-met.
Blog text (16) -
Hail-fellow-well-met, Tuohey allowed a moment of contained laughter.
Fiction book (1999) -
Even the most grandiose extroverted, hail fellow well met narcissist will isolate.
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Even the most grandiose extroverted hail fellow well met narcissist will isolate.
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Under his hard-drinking, hail-fellow-well-met exterior, he was a remarkably thorough worker and quietly discreet in compiling information.
Fiction book (1992) -
Everyone loves Jim because he is a hail-fellow-well-met who makes friends easily.
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Despite his serious job, he is known for his hail-fellow-well-met charm that puts people at ease.
Synonyms
Friendly and supportive in a way that shows people working together
A person who is warm and friendly and easy to talk to
Antonyms
How Friendly
Surface Forms
Morphology
hail-fellow-well-met = hail + fellow + met (semi-transparent) = well + hail + fellow + met
Built from a greeting sequence whose components are recognizable, but the idiomatic, somewhat archaic adjectival meaning 'heartily friendly' is figurative and not fully predictable from the parts. [Postprocessing: moved 'well' from base_words to prefix]
Etymology
Hail-fellow-well-met comes from an old cheerful greeting made of three parts: hail 'hello', fellow 'friend', and well-met 'good to meet you'. So it pictured someone who greets others warmly, and today it describes a person who is very friendly and cheerful when meeting people, sometimes a bit too familiar.