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ill-formed

  [il-fawrmd]
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–adjective
1. badly formed.
2. Linguistics. not conforming to the rules of a given language; ungrammatical (opposed to well-formed ).
Origin:
1665–75

Related forms:
ill-form⋅ed⋅ness  [il-fawr-mid-nis, -fawrmd-] , noun
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ill-formed

adjective
not grammatical; not conforming to the rules of grammar or accepted usage [syn: ungrammatical] [ant: grammatical] 
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