well known – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of well known

Adjective: well known

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativebetter known
Superlativebest known

Perifrastic

Sample Sentences

  • As is well known, heavy drinking is dangerous.
  • However, Hsinch'ang District, Chihchiang County, Hupei Province is well known for its use of the ox-drawn, three-bladed cultivator in cotton farming. [1976, IDE Special Paper, numbers 1-12, →OCLC, page 41:]
  • The village was once well known for its paper-milling, founded by Huguenot immigrants in 1648, which produced high-quality hand-made paper until 1952. [1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 178, about Eynsford:]
  • If you feel I have short-changed Brunel by not detailing all his accomplishments, it's only because he's so well known to us rail aficionados. [2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:]

Etymology