well-formed

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well-formed

adjective better-formed · more well-formed · best-formed · most well-formed

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.

Opposite: ill-formed

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adjective

Opposite: ill-formed

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adj syntactically correct

Deutsch	wohlgeformt

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@misc{well_formed_2026,
  title = {well-formed},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/well-formed},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}