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well-defined

[ wel-di-fahynd ]

/ ˈwɛl dɪˈfaɪnd /

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adjective

sharply or clearly stated, outlined, described, etc.: a well-defined character; a well-defined boundary.

Origin of well-defined

First recorded in 1695–1705

Words nearby well-defined

well-controlled, well-cooked, well-covered, well-cultivated, well-defended, well-defined, well-demonstrated, well-described, well-deserved, well-developed, well-disciplined

Example sentences from the Web for well-defined

By 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

well-defined

adjective (well defined when postpositive)

clearly delineated, described, or determined