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PRONUNCIATION OF ILL-FORMED

ill-formed  [ˌɪlˈfɔːmd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ILL-FORMED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ill-Formed is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ILL-FORMED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of ill-formed in the English dictionary

The definition of ill-formed in the dictionary is badly formed and ungrammatical.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ILL-FORMED


biformed
ˈbaɪˌfɔːmd
deformed
dɪˈfɔːmd
ill-informed
ˌɪlɪnˈfɔːmd
informed
ɪnˈfɔːmd
malformed
ˌmælˈfɔːmd
normed
nɔːmd
Reformed
rɪˈfɔːmd
twiformed
ˈtwaɪˌfɔːmd
undeformed
ˌʌndɪˈfɔːmd
unformed
ʌnˈfɔːmd
uniformed
ˈjuːnɪˌfɔːmd
uninformed
ˌʌnɪnˈfɔːmd
unperformed
ˌʌnpəˈfɔːmd
unreformed
ˌʌnrɪˈfɔːmd
untransformed
ˌʌntrænsˈfɔːmd
unwarmed
ʌnˈwɔːmd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ILL-FORMED

ill-defined
ill-disposed
ill-equipped
ill-fated
ill-favored
ill-favoredly
ill-favoured
ill-favouredly
ill-feeling
ill-fitting
ill-founded
ill-gotten
ill-gotten gains
ill-humoured
ill-humouredly
ill-informed
ill-judged
ill-mannered
ill-manneredly
ill-natured

WORDS THAT END LIKE ILL-FORMED

alarmed
armed
charmed
farmed
firearmed
forearmed
forewarned is forearmed
half-formed
multiarmed
one-armed
permed
to be reliably informed
unalarmed
unarmed
unconfirmed
unharmed
unwormed
well-armed
well-formed
well-informed

Synonyms and antonyms of ill-formed in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ill-formed» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ILL-FORMED

Find out the translation of ill-formed to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ill-formed from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ill-formed» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不良形成
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mal formado
570 millions of speakers

English

ill-formed
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बीमार का गठन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سوء تشكيلها
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неправильно оформленный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mal- formados
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অসুস্থ গঠিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mal formé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak terbentuk
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schlecht gebildet
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

不適格な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

잘못 형성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gerah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vô hình thành
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தவறான உருவாக்கப்பட்டது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अयोग्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kötü şekillendirilmiş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mal formata
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

źle sformułowane
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

неправильно оформлений
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bolnav format -
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κακοσχηματισμένες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

swak gevorm
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ill- formade
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ill- formet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ill-formed

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ILL-FORMED»

The term «ill-formed» is normally little used and occupies the 111.586 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ILL-FORMED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ill-formed

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ILL-FORMED»

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1
Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction
They are perhaps meaningless or nonsensical in the everyday use of the words ' meaningless' and 'nonsensical', but they are perhaps not rightly described as semantically ill-formed. The expressions 'well-formed' and 'ill-formed' first came ...
John Lyons, 1995
2
The Art of Poetry : How to Read a Poem: How to Read a Poem
Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth didst by my side remain, Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true, Who thee abroad, exposed to public view, Made thee in rags, halting to th' press to trudge, Where ...
Shira Wolosky Professor of English and American Literature Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2001
3
Constraint Grammar: A Language-independent System for ...
It is quite another matter whether it is practically feasible to analyse ill- formed inputs such as the above. Probably some kind of typology should be established: while e.g. misspellings or agreement errors could and should be treated in a ...
Fred Karlsson, 1995
4
The Conduct of Linguistic Inquiry: A Systematic Introduction ...
a well-formed grammatical problem from an ill-formed one? A well-formed grammatical problem is a problem which is, in principle, solvable. In other works, it is a problem which contains no element that precludes the possibility of gaining the ...
Rudolf P. Botha, 1981
5
Knowledge-based Software Engineering: Proceedings of the ...
We have implemented a plan recognition system for source code search, and have attempted detection of ill-formed patterns about programming style through it. In this paper, we present experimental result obtained from a prototype system.
Pavol Návrat, Haruki Ueno, 1998
6
Solving Language Problems: From General to Applied Linguistics
On the other hand, native speakers could deliberately use certain ill-formed structures in order to convey a particular kind of meaning. The criteria for well- formedness in such cases would be pragmatic. *bnick — phonotactically ill- formed ...
R. R. K. Hartmann, 1996
7
Perspectives on Cognitive Science: Theories, Experiments, ...
15. SYNTACTIC. RECOVERY. AND. SPELLING. CORRECTION. OF. ILL- FORMED. SENTENCES. Kyongho Min and William H. Wilson The University of New South Wales INTRODUCTION Human beings often produce sentences that are ...
Janet Wiles, Terry Dartnall, 1999
8
Idioms in English: A Pragmatic Analysis
5 2. selectional restrictions: [+ human] 3. semantic description: to die Weinreich certainly provides an improvement of Katz/Postal's theory, but there remains, for example, the problem of syntactically ill-formed idioms, such as trip the light ...
Jürg Strässler, 1982
9
The Handbook of Phonological Theory
Furthermore, errors on these categorically ill-formed sequences are not random; they tend to result in categorically well-formed sequences (e.g. French speakers mistranscribe ill-formed /dl/ as well-formed /gl/: Hallé et al. 1998). This suggests ...
John A. Goldsmith, Jason Riggle, Alan C. L. Yu, 2011
10
Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader
(for example) is more ill-formed than the syllable .CV., but .VC. is not absolutely ill -formed. How can Optimality Theory bar .VC. from any language's syllable inventory? What Optimality Theory would need in order to outlaw such syllables ...
John J. McCarthy, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ILL-FORMED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ill-formed is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Amid Global Bee Decline, Beekeeper Stresses Need for Apiarists …
Otherwise, it will produce ill-formed fruit, or nothing at all. “It's flower sex, basically. Pollen is male sperm,” said Long. Long started with five ... «The SandPaper, Jul 15»
2
Amid Global Bee Decline, Beekeeper Stresses Need for Apiarists
Otherwise, it will produce ill-formed fruit, or nothing at all. “It's flower sex, basically. Pollen is male sperm,” said Long. Long started with five ... «The SandPaper, Jul 15»
3
Harper Lee, 'Go Set A Watchman,' - Cognoscenti - WBUR
Such is the sophomore slump for many best-selling writers, whose second book seems like an ill-formed version of the first. Like the legion of ... «WBUR, Jul 15»
4
Harper Lee, 'Go Set A Watchman,' And A Defense Of The Two-Hit …
Such is the sophomore slump for many best-selling writers, whose second book seems like an ill-formed version of the first. Like the legion of ... «WBUR, Jul 15»
5
New state-owned framework
... the operations and systems of all 56 state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and found a core weakness in their ill-formed administrative structures. «Bangkok Post, Jul 15»
6
Mum: Help me
Within days of his birth, his mother said he had surgery to remove the ill-formed esophagus. And during the recovery period his heart stopped. «Nation News, Jul 15»
7
Nature's call of colitis: Patient and the parasite
... even intermittent periods of constipation punctuated by episodes of loud, exploding, ill-formed motions, are some of the descriptive symptoms ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
8
Graphene takes on a new dimension
Due to the fragility of atom-thin graphene, previous methods to bend or mold it into complex shapes resulted in uneven, ill-formed objects at ... «Gizmag, Jun 15»
9
Nkrumah Nkrumah, Wole Soyinka, & Kongi's Harvest (3)
Evidently, what President Bush had failed to include in his ill-formed and misplaced comment was the universal anarchy in Iraq, where Islamic ... «GhanaWeb, Jun 15»
10
Sawchuck unaware
In his latest ill-formed and ill-informed outburst (Free Press, June 11) Joe Sawchuk seems unaware of a great many things: for instance, that ... «The Free Press, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Ill-Formed [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/ill-formed>. May 2024 ».
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