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[ wel-di-fahynd ] / ˈwɛl dɪˈfaɪnd / SEE SYNONYMS FOR well-defined ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivesharply or clearly stated, outlined, described, etc.: a well-defined character; a well-defined boundary. Origin of well-definedFirst recorded in 1695–1705 Words nearby well-definedwell-controlled, well-cooked, well-covered, well-cultivated, well-defended, well-defined, well-demonstrated, well-described, well-deserved, well-developed, well-differentiated lymphocytic lymphoma Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for well-definedBy contrast, exercising requires you to commit your willpower for only a short, well-defined period of time. The Behavioral Economics of Your New Year’s Resolutions|Uri Gneezy|January 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST Pawson smiled faintly, then his eyebrows lost their identity in some well-defined wrinkles in his forehead. Kennedy Square|F. Hopkinson Smith As between ‘our’ activities as ‘we’ experience them, and those of our ideas, or of our brain-cells, the issue is well-defined. Essays in Radical Empiricism|William James They were soon in the woods and saw a well-defined path running to the eastward. The Rover Boys on the Farm|Arthur M. Winfield (AKA Edward Stratemeyer)
How mysterious is this very sharp, and well-defined separation from all mystery! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXIX.|Various Geographers have, for convenience, divided the river into well-defined sections, the Upper and the Lower Congo. The World and Its People: Book VII|Anna B. Badlam
British Dictionary definitions for well-defined
adjective (well defined when postpositive)clearly delineated, described, or determined Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to well-definedprecise, unambiguous, straightforward, distinct, clear-cut, explicit, transparent, apparent, audible, comprehensible, intelligible, legible, lucid, obvious, plain, sharp, understandable, lucent, graspable, spelled out |