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better-formed

better-formed is the comparative 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 better-formed

What is better-formed the comparative form of?
Better-formed is the comparative form of well-formed.

Words near better-formed in the dictionary

  1. better-brought-up
  2. better-built
  3. better-connected
  4. better-defined
  5. better-developed
  6. better-formed
  7. better-groomed
  8. better-grounded
  9. better-hearted
  10. better-humored
  11. better-humoured

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Adapted from Wiktionary: better-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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