well-founded
adj1
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.1946 September and October, “Speculation Run Riot”, in Railway Magazine, page 269:
3
Mathematics, Sciences 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
- Related terms
- foundation, founding, ground, grounding