wellfounded
wellfounded is the alternative form of well-founded.
Meaning of well-founded
Adjective
well-founded (comparative more well-founded, superlative most well-founded)
- Based on reasoning, evidence and good judgement.
- Synonyms:
- well-grounded, on solid ground, legitimate
- Antonyms:
- ill-founded, ill-grounded, groundless, baseless, flimsy, unjustified
- Properly substantiated.
- After the crisis had passed, certain well-founded proposals were revived, and resulted in important additions to the railway network of the country.1946 September and October, “Speculation Run Riot”, in Railway Magazine, page 269
- Synonyms:
- well-grounded
- Antonyms:
- ill-founded, ill-grounded, groundless, baseless, flimsy, unjustified
- Of a binary relation: such that every non-empty subset of the relation's domain has a minimal element with respect to the relation.
- well-founded relation
Questions about wellfounded
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- Wellfounded is the alternative form of well-founded.
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