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well-formed

[wel-fawrmd]
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adjective
  1. rightly or pleasingly formed: a well-formed contour.
  2. Linguistics. (of an utterance) conforming to the rules of a language; grammatical (opposed to ill-formed).
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Origin of well-formed

First recorded in 1510–20
Related formswell-form·ed·ness [wel-fawr-mid-nis, -fawrmd-] /ˈwɛlˈfɔr mɪd nɪs, -ˈfɔrmd-/, noun
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Examples from the Web for well-formed

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  • And the body is fairest which grows up straight and well-formed from the time of birth.

    Laws

    Plato

  • This one should be well matured, at least at the base, and should have well-formed eyes.

  • His face was well-formed, except that the nose was too large and too prominently aquiline.

    Shoulder-Straps

    Henry Morford

  • When we got to Carlton, however, there came a hitch in my well-formed arrangements.

  • Maud, the eldest girl, had very straight, well-formed features.

    A Modern Tomboy

    L. T. Meade

British Dictionary definitions for well-formed

well-formed

adjective
  1. logic linguistics (of a formula, expression, etc) constructed in accordance with the syntactic rules of a particular system; grammatically correct
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Derived Formswell-formedness, noun
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