well-founded

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well-founded

adjective more well-founded · most well-founded

Based on reasoning, evidence and good judgement.
Similar: well-grounded, on solid ground, legitimate · Opposite: 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.
Similar: well-grounded · Opposite: 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

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adj based on reasoning, evidence and good judgement

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@misc{well_founded_2026,
  title = {well-founded},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/well-founded},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}