well-founded

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well-founded (comparative more well-founded, superlative most well-founded)

  1. Based on reasoning, evidence and good judgement.
    Antonym: ill-founded
  2. Properly substantiated.
    Antonym: ill-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.
  3. (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.

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