had best

Verb

Meaning

act in one's own or everybody's best interest

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Synonyms

have due must should do well need to ought to had better might as well be obliged to should be more should go would do well you best be you better

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Antonyms

small low lower off rotten ill

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Hypernyms

move act

Examples

You will do well to arrive on time tomorrow! Source: Internet

As someone who spends considerable time pounding hardly antiseptic city pavement, I didn’t have the heart to tell the women they had best wipe down their boots — and their hands — with disinfectant following a day of foot pumps. Source: Internet

He told me in a phone conversation that he wasn’t homophobic, that he’d been to Mardi Gras, and he’d had best friends who were gay. Source: Internet

Quiz: Who had best batting AVG in Sox lineup last year? Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

had been unable had begun had bellyful had better had confidence in had contact