Usually means: Based on logical or factual support.
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  1. well-founded: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. well-founded: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. well-founded, well-founded: Collins English Dictionary
  4. well-founded: Vocabulary.com
  5. well-founded: Wordnik
  6. well-founded: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. well-founded: Wiktionary
  8. well-founded: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. well-founded: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. well-founded: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. well-founded: Dictionary.com
  12. well-founded: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Well-founded: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. well-founded: Rhymezone
  15. well-founded: Free Dictionary
  16. well-founded: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. well-founded: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. well-founded: Legal dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. well-founded: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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adjective:  Based on reasoning, evidence and good judgement.
adjective:  Properly substantiated.
adjective:  (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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