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well-founded en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Based on reasoning, evidence and good judgement.
  2. 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:
  3. 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

Forms

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most well-founded Degree=Sup lexicographic
more well-founded Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Antonyms

baseless · ill-grounded · unjustified · groundless · unjustified · ill-grounded · ill-founded · ill-founded · baseless · groundless · flimsy · flimsy

Deriveds

well-foundedness

Hypernyms

founded · founded

Relateds

founding · foundation · grounding · ground

Synonyms

legitimate · on solid ground · well-grounded · well-grounded

Translations (7)

fi perusteltu (properly substantiated) · sv välgrundad (based on reasoning, evidence and good judgement) · fi aiheellinen (based on reasoning, evidence and good judgement) · fi perusteltu (based on reasoning, evidence and good judgement) · hy հիմնավոր (properly substantiated) · de fundiert (based on reasoning, evidence and good judgement) · hy հիմնավոր (based on reasoning, evidence and good judgement)