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Well-founded

Date "well-founded" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1686. (references)


Synonym: Well-founded

Synonym: tenable (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Well-founded

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Belief

Firm belief, implicit belief, settled belief, fixed rooted deep-rooted belief, staunch belief, unshaken belief, steadfast belief, inveterate belief, calm belief, sober belief, dispassionate belief, impartial belief, well-founded belief, firm opinion, implicit opinion, settled opinion, fixed rooted deep-rooted opinion, staunch opinion, unshaken opinion, steadfast opinion, inveterate opinion, calm opinion, sober opinion, dispassionate opinion, impartial opinion, well-founded opinion; uberrima fides.

Certainty

Adjective: certain, sure, assured; Verb: solid, well-founded.

Existence

Well-founded, well-grounded; unideal, unimagined; not potential; authentic.

Probability

Plausible, specious, ostensible, colorable, ben trovato, well-founded, reasonable, credible, easy of belief, presumable, presumptive, apparent.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Well-founded

Specialty definitions using "well-founded": Asyleerelational algebraWell-founded Doctor. (references)

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Modern Usage: Well-founded

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Well-Founded Fear (2000)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Well-founded

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Well-Founded City (reference)

  • A Well-Founded Fear: The Congressional Battle to Save Political Asylum in America (reference)

  • The Justice Plan: The Only Way to Ensure Widespread, Well-Founded Justice in Any Society: Justice Liberty Prosperity (reference)

  • The prosperity plan; the only way to maintain widespread, well-founded prosperity and free enterprise in any society without war, without debt, without hardship, without inflation, without high taxes, without big government and without communism (reference)

  • Well-Founded Fear (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Well-founded

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Civil Liberties

Iran

Between April and December 2000, the Government and the UNHCR operated a joint program intended to facilitate the repatriation of Afghans who did not have a well-founded fear of persecution. (references)

Russia

Improperly documented passengers are deported systematically, including persons who demonstrated a well-founded fear of persecution in their countries of origin; the UNHCR was aware of 43 such cases during the year. (references)

Switzerland

The Government denies having forced persons to return to countries where they have a well-founded fear of persecution and insists that each case be examined carefully; however, NGO's, including the well-known NGO Eyes Open accused the Government of expelling rejected asylum seekers in some cases when conditions in their native countries remained unfavorable. (references)

Human Rights

Slovak Republic

The court may issue such a warrant only if there is a well-founded suspicion that important evidence or persons accused of criminal activity are present inside, or if there is another important reason. (references)

Argentina

Police may detain suspects for up to 10 hours without an arrest warrant if the authorities have a well-founded belief that suspects have committed, or are about to commit, a crime, or if they are unable to determine the identity of a suspect. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Well-founded

"Well-founded" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Well-founded" is used about 78 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%7837,656

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Well-founded

Language Translations for "well-founded"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

有根据. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

wraking wegens gewettigde verdenking (challenging the judge or the jury under well-founded suspicion that fair trial will not be given), vrees voor partijdigheid (well-founded suspicion that fair trial will not be given), vrees voor niet-onpartijdigheid (well-founded suspicion that fair trial will not be given), met redenen omkleed vonnis (well-founded decision). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

aiheellinen (advisable, justifiable). (various references)

   

French

  

suspicion légitime (well-founded suspicion that fair trial will not be given), récusation pour cause de suspicion légitime (challenging the judge or the jury under well-founded suspicion that fair trial will not be given), justifier un intérêt (give proof of a well-founded interest), jugement motivé (well-founded decision). (various references)

   

German

  

Zweifel an der Unparteilichkeit (well-founded suspicion that fair trial will not be given), sich bewahrheiten (come true, prove well-founded, to come true), ein begründetes Interesse nachweisen (give proof of a well-founded interest), Besorgnis der Befangenheit (well-founded suspicion that fair trial will not be given), begründete Entscheidung (well-founded decision), Ablehnung wegen Befangenheit (challenging the judge or the jury under well-founded suspicion that fair trial will not be given). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βάσιμος. (various references)

   

Italian

  

sentenza motivata (well-founded decision), ricusazione per legittima suspicione (challenging the judge or the jury under well-founded suspicion that fair trial will not be given), legittima suspicione (well-founded suspicion that fair trial will not be given), comprovare un fondato interesse (give proof of a well-founded interest). (various references)

   

Manx

  

dy vel bun er. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ell-foundedway

   

Portuguese

  

suspeição (surmise, suspicion), sentença fundamentada (well-founded decision), oposição por motivo de suspeição (challenging the judge or the jury under well-founded suspicion that fair trial will not be given), dedução de suspeição (challenging the judge or the jury under well-founded suspicion that fair trial will not be given). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

обоснованный (cogent, founded, reasonable, valid, well founded, well grounded, well-grounded, well-thought-out). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

välgrundat avgörande (well-founded decision), misstro mot domstol (well-founded suspicion that fair trial will not be given), misstanke om domstols partiskhet (well-founded suspicion that fair trial will not be given), jävsinvändning mot domaren (challenging the judge or the jury under well-founded suspicion that fair trial will not be given). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

chắc chắn (assuredly, away, certain, fast, reliable, secure, settled, staid, strong, undoubted, unquestionable, well-grounded), đáng tin cậy (dependable, tried, trustworthy, well-grounded). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Well-founded

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-f-l-l-n-o-u-w"

-3 letters: dowelled, enfolded, fellowed, loudened, unfolded, unwelded.

-4 letters: doleful, doweled, duelled, dwelled, endowed, fondled, founded, fuelled, needful, wounded.

-5 letters: defend, defund, delude, denude, dolled, downed, dudeen, dueled, duello, duende, dulled, eluded, endued, enfold, felled, felloe, fellow, fended, feuded, flowed, folded, fonded, fondle, fondue, fouled, fowled, fuddle, fueled, fulled, funded, louden, noddle, nodule, nulled, unfold.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Well-founded


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 65 6C 6C 2D 66 6F 75 6E 64 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01100101 01101100 01101100 00101101 01100110 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#45 &#102 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#100 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0065 006C 006C 002D 0066 006F 0075 006E 0064 0065 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

577178781572818780707170

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