well-defined
sharply or clearly stated, outlined, described, etc.: a well-defined character; a well-defined boundary.
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How to use well-defined in a sentence
Her faith was less well defined than her views on field sports.
The Week in Death: Clarissa Dickson Wright, One of ‘Two Fat Ladies’ | The Telegraph | March 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBy contrast, exercising requires you to commit your willpower for only a short, well-defined period of time.
The Behavioral Economics of Your New Year’s Resolutions | Uri Gneezy | January 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTwelve years later, everything has to be really well defined.
The Story Behind the Bombers | Christopher Dickey, Eli Lake, Daniel Klaidman | April 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe whole point of a bohemia is that people congregate in a relatively well-defined area.
Each of them are well defined in the movie, and not stereotypes.
‘Community’: Alison Brie, Yvette Nicole Brown, Gillian Jacobs & Megan Ganz Roundtable | Jace Lacob | February 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Cystin crystals are colorless, highly refractive, rather thick, hexagonal plates with well-defined edges.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddThe sides generally rather shallow, heads of exquisite form and well defined.
Violins and Violin Makers | Joseph PearceThe edge of the reef off the latter island is not well defined, for we passed several straggling rocks.
The Crossley reflector promises to be useful in a number of fields which are fairly well defined.
Photographs of Nebul and Clusters | James Edward KeelerIt arose at an earlier period in India and Persia, but everywhere it was late in its appearance as a well-defined doctrine.
Man And His Ancestor | Charles Morris
British Dictionary definitions for well-defined
clearly delineated, described, or determined
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