Skip to content

well-founded

adjective

No English definition recorded for this entry.

L227007 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

adj

  1. Based on reasoning, evidence and good judgement.
  2. Properly substantiated.

    After the crisis had passed, certain well-founded proposals were revived, and resulted in important additions to the railway network of the country.

  3. 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