Wiktionary
a. (context linguistics computing English) Correctly written; syntactically correct; expressed in a way that obeys rules for constructing formulas in a certain language.
WordNet
adj. conforming to the rules of grammar or usage accepted by native speakers; "spoke in grammatical sentences" [syn: grammatical] [ant: ungrammatical]
Wikipedia
Well-formed or wellformed indicate syntactic correctness and may refer to:
- Well-formedness in linguistics
- Well-formed formula, a string that is generated by a formal grammar in logic
- Well-formed element, an element in webpage design
- Well-formed document, in XML is a document that adheres to the syntax rules specified by the XML 1.0 specification
- Well-formed Petri net, a Petri net class
- Well-formed scale, a class of musical scales
Usage examples of "well-formed".
She nervously watched the byplay among her captors, gripping her opposite shoulders with her well-formed hands.
A well-formed tree, a sunset, a suddenly revealed panorama, they could freeze Jobs in midword, make him forget what he was doing, leave him staring, silent, oblivious to anything else.
Two well-formed tits bounced and bobbed from her chest as Tomar repeatedly lunged his fleshy sword between her perky buttocks.
Black was curled up fast asleep on a red Ushak carpet, with his well-formed head lying on a velvet pillow embroidered with pearls.
Crossing the open exercise areas he came to the stables, filled with the ceaseless sounds and thick smells of horses of all sorts: brave coursers and glum-faced palfreys, massive destriers, well-formed jumpers and the enormous draft annuals that pulled the war drays of the entourage from Matloo.
Two gentlemen were lounging in a very easy fashion upon luxurious fauteuils at the further end of the room and a third stood between them, his thick, well-formed legs somewhat apart and his hands clasped behind him.
The worn fabric of his tight braies pulled taut on his thighs, and Eadyth stared, open-mouthed, for a lengthy moment at their well-formed contours.
She was short, well-formed, round-faced, always an excellent helpmate and hos-less, but her bubbliness had dwindled on the Moon.
The joyous soul, charioted from pleasure to pleasure by the graceful mechanism of well-formed limbs, will suddenly feel the axle-tree give way, and spring and wheel dissolve in dust.
They were the prettiest, daintiest folk ever eyes looked upon, well-formed and like to us as could be in the main, but slender and willowy, so dainty and light, both the men and the women, so pretty of cheek and hair, so mild of aspect, I felt, as I strode amongst them, I could have plucked them like flowers and bound them up in bunches with my belt.
She had most likely lost some weight due to the fevers and her injury, but still she was well-formed and strong.
She was garbed in a clinging peplos that accented every contour of her body while exposing large, beguiling patches of her graceful shoulders and well-formed bosom.
The brilliancy of her eyes, the superb arch of her eyebrows, her well-formed aquiline nose, her teeth as white as pearl, and the profusion of her sable tresses, which, each arranged in its own little spiral of swisted curls, fell down upon as much of a lovely neck and bosom as a simarre of the richest Persian silk, exhibiting flowers in their natural colours embossed upon a purple ground, permitted to be visible—all these constituted a combination of loveliness which yielded not to the most beautiful of the maidens who surrounded her.
Simple vests and skirts, a well-formed but basic metal axe slung at one hip, spears-nothing to hint at knowledge of advanced technologies.
Beside Gilbuht knelt a handsome, black-haired sergeant standard-bearer, his clear, tenor voice leading a verse, while his well-formed hands placed the finishing touches on the edges of a new-looking broadsword bearing a distinguished hallmark.