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wellformed

wellformed is the alternative 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 wellformed

What is wellformed the alternative form of?
Wellformed is the alternative form of well-formed.

Words near wellformed in the dictionary

  1. wellfares
  2. wellfield
  3. wellfields
  4. Wellfleet
  5. Wellford
  6. wellformed
  7. wellformedness
  8. wellfound
  9. wellfounded
  10. wellful
  11. wellfuls

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