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WELL-GROUNDED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does well-grounded mean?
• WELL-GROUNDED (adjective)
The adjective WELL-GROUNDED has 1 sense:
1. logically valid
Familiarity information: WELL-GROUNDED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Logically valid
Synonyms:
reasoned; sound; well-grounded
Context example:
a sound argument
Similar:
valid (well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force)
Context examples
He had every well-grounded reason for solid attachment; he knew her to have all the worth that could justify the warmest hopes of lasting happiness with her; her conduct at this very time, by speaking the disinterestedness and delicacy of her character (qualities which he believed most rare indeed), was of a sort to heighten all his wishes, and confirm all his resolutions.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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