WELL-FORMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does well-formed mean? 

• WELL-FORMED (adjective)
  The adjective WELL-FORMED has 1 sense:

1. conforming to the rules of grammar or usage accepted by native speakers

  Familiarity information: WELL-FORMED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WELL-FORMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conforming to the rules of grammar or usage accepted by native speakers

Synonyms:

grammatical; well-formed

Context example:

spoke in grammatical sentences

 Context examples 

A morphologic variant of schwannoma characterized by hypercellularity, Antoni A pattern, and the absence of well-formed Verocay bodies.

(Cellular Schwannoma, NCI Thesaurus)

I'll use my own, said Lord John Roxton, in fitting a well-formed expedition and having another look at the dear old plateau.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Two gentlemen were lounging in a very easy fashion upon luxurious fauteuils at the further end of the room and a third stood between them, his thick, well-formed legs somewhat apart and his hands clasped behind him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was so filled with the play, and with the past—for it was, in a manner, like a shining transparency, through which I saw my earlier life moving along—that I don't know when the figure of a handsome well-formed young man dressed with a tasteful easy negligence which I have reason to remember very well, became a real presence to me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)