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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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ill-formed

adjective
not grammatical; not conforming to the rules of grammar or accepted usage [syn: ungrammatical] [ant: grammatical
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More ill-formed is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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