well-formed
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adjective
1.
rightly or pleasingly formed: a well-formed contour.
2.
Linguistics. (of an utterance) conforming to the rules of a language; grammatical ( opposed to ill-formed ).
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| well-formed | |
| —adj | |
| logic, linguistics (of a formula, expression, etc) constructed in accordance with the syntactic rules of a particular system; grammatically correct | |
| well-formedness | |
| —n | |
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Well-formed
is always a great word to know.
So is acquire. Does it mean:
| the system of levels according to which a language is organized, as phonemic, morphemic, syntactic, or semantic |
| to achieve native or native like command of a language |
Example sentences
They had to be able to drop whatever they were doing and jump in the water whenever well-formed waves appeared.
There are other, less well-formed ideas percolating out there, too.
It was conducted according to a well-formed plan to have acquiesced and some chiefs of gendarmes devices.
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