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ill-formed

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

Origin:
1665–75


ill-form⋅ed⋅ness [il-fawr-mid-nis, -fawrmd-] , noun
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