Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

well-documented

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.00 in modern English

Syllables: well--doc-u-ment-ed
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

6

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having extensive documentation and evidence.

Example Sentences

"People are assumed to follow the maxim and submaxim, but cross-cultural differences are well-documented regarding the enactment of the submaxim."
"It also entailed well-documented disadvantages: a population increase in an unsustaining economy, a battered self-identity, a plague of substance abuse."
"It also means that when a right-wing Jewish group such as the ZOA chooses to overlook Bannon’s well-documented links to anti-Semitic white nationalists, it puts itself on a moral par with J.V.P. Bannon is the man who expressly called Breitbart News “the platform for the alt-right,” knowing full-well the toxic range of opinion encompassed by the term."

Etymology

From well + documented.

Inflected Forms

more well-documented (comparative) most well-documented (superlative)

Questions

What does well-documented mean?: Having extensive documentation and evidence.
Where does well-documented come from?: From well + documented.

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