well-founded
See also: wellfounded
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]well-founded (comparative more well-founded, superlative most well-founded)
- Based on reasoning, evidence and good judgement.
- Synonyms: well-grounded, on solid ground, legitimate
- Antonyms: ill-founded, ill-grounded, groundless, baseless, flimsy, unjustified
- Hypernym: founded
- Properly substantiated.
- Synonym: well-grounded
- Antonyms: ill-founded, ill-grounded, groundless, baseless, flimsy, unjustified
- Hypernym: founded
- 1946 September and October, “Speculation Run Riot”, in Railway Magazine, page 269:
- After the crisis had passed, certain well-founded proposals were revived, and resulted in important additions to the railway network of the country.
- (mathematics) Of a binary relation: such that every non-empty subset of the relation's domain has a minimal element with respect to the relation.
- well-founded relation
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]based on reasoning, evidence and good judgement
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properly substantiated
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mathematics: such that every set has a minimal element