Usually means: Not correctly structured or articulated.
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  1. ill-formed, ill-formed: Collins English Dictionary
  2. ill-formed: Vocabulary.com
  3. ill-formed: Wordnik
  4. ill-formed: Wiktionary
  5. ill-formed: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. ill-formed: Dictionary.com
  7. ill-formed: Rhymezone
  8. ill-formed: FreeDictionary.org
  9. ill-formed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. ill-formed: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ill-formed)

▸ adjective:  Poorly formed.
▸ adjective:  (linguistics, computing) Not well-formed.

Similar:
ungrammatical, informed, informous, deformed, unshapen, lumpish, lageniform, shapeful, poor, lumpy, more...

Opposite:
well-formed, well-structured, well-organized, well-designed

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Similar:
ungrammatical, informed, informous, deformed, unshapen, lumpish, lageniform, shapeful, poor, lumpy, more...

Opposite:
well-formed, well-structured, well-organized, well-designed



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