"well-formed" meaning in English

See well-formed in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: better-formed [comparative], more well-formed [comparative], best-formed [superlative], most well-formed [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj|better-formed|more|sup=best-formed}} well-formed (comparative better-formed or more well-formed, superlative best-formed or most well-formed)
  1. (linguistics, computing) Correctly written; syntactically correct; expressed in a way that obeys rules for constructing formulas in a certain language. Categories (topical): Computing, Linguistics Hyponyms: formed Derived forms: well-formedness Related terms: well-formed formula Translations (syntactically correct): welgevormd (Dutch), goed gevormd (Dutch), wohlgeformt (German), dea-chumtha (Irish)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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