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View synonyms for ill-formed

ill-formed

[il-fawrmd]

adjective

  1. badly formed.

  2. Linguistics.,  not conforming to the rules of a given language; ungrammatical (well-formed ).



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Other Word Forms

  • ill-formedness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ill-formed1

First recorded in 1665–75

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