ill-formed

1. 1.

   not grammatical; not conforming to the rules of grammar or accepted usage

   Synonymsungrammatical

   Similarincorrect

Questions about ill-formed

What does ill-formed mean?

ill-formed means "not grammatical; not conforming to the rules of grammar or accepted usage".

How many syllables are in ill-formed?

ill-formed has 2 syllables and divides as ill--formed under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for ill-formed?

Close synonyms include ungrammatical. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.