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well-documented

well-documented adjective: having extensive documentation and evidence.

Adjective

well-documented (comparative more well-documented, superlative most well-documented)

  1. Having extensive documentation and evidence.
    • People are assumed to follow the maxim and submaxim, but cross-cultural differences are well-documented regarding the enactment of the submaxim.2004, Michele J. Gelfand, Jeanne M. Brett, The Handbook of Negotiation and Culture, page 316
    • It also entailed well-documented disadvantages: a population increase in an unsustaining economy, a battered self-identity, a plague of substance abuse.2009 July 24, Holland Cotter, “Postcards From Canada’s ‘New North’”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022

Forms of well-documented

comparativemore well-documented
superlativemost well-documented

Origin of well-documented

From well + documented.

Questions about well-documented

What does well-documented mean?
Well-documented means having extensive documentation and evidence.
What part of speech is well-documented?
Well-documented is an adjective.

Words near well-documented in the dictionary

  1. well-deserved
  2. well-designed
  3. well-developed
  4. well-disposed
  5. well-disposedness
  6. well-documented
  7. well-doing
  8. well-done
  9. well-dressed
  10. well-earned
  11. well-educated

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