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best-formed

best-formed is the superlative form of well-formed.

Meaning of well-formed

Adjective

well-formed (comparative better-formed or more well-formed, superlative best-formed or most well-formed)

  1. Correctly written; syntactically correct; expressed in a way that obeys rules for constructing formulas in a certain language.
    • If the parser says it is good, then it must be well-formed and is part of the language.

Questions about best-formed

What is best-formed the superlative form of?
Best-formed is the superlative form of well-formed.

Words near best-formed in the dictionary

  1. best-case scenarios
  2. best-connected
  3. best-defined
  4. best-developed
  5. best-disposed
  6. best-formed
  7. best-groomed
  8. best-grounded
  9. best-hearted
  10. best-humored
  11. best-humoured

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Adapted from Wiktionary: best-formed (page history and authors); well-formed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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