well-ordered

[wel-awr-derd]

adjective

1. arranged, planned, or occurring in a desirable way, sequence, etc.

well-ordered

adjective

1. logic maths (of a relation) having the property that every nonempty subset of its field has a least member under the relation: less than is well-ordered on the natural numbers but not on the reals, since an open set has no least member

Word History and Origins

Origin of well-ordered¹

First recorded in 1600–10

Example Sentences

It should be possible—and it is essential to a well-ordered society—to call out morally reprehensible behavior by your own side as well as by your opponents.

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More than a decade passed before he tested the idea, using copper ions and organic compounds called nitriles to create well-ordered, spacious crystals.

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Local resident Reka told me she couldn't understand how an attack like this could have happened in her well-ordered city.

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Donald Trump’s fixation on well-ordered forests as an antidote to wildfires seems like a weird obsession, but it is rooted in the same high-modernist thought.

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"Families comprised of a married mother, father, and their children are the foundation of a well-ordered nation and healthy society," the document declares, putting single people and queer people into the category of woke un-people.

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