well-ordered

well-ordered [wel-awr-derd] ExamplesWord Origin See more synonyms for well-ordered on Thesaurus.com adjective

1. arranged, planned, or occurring in a desirable way, sequence, etc.

Origin of well-ordered First recorded in 1600–10 Related Words for well-ordered precise, efficient, organized, standardized, methodical, orderly, snug, sleek, well-kept, matter-of-fact, diligent, purposeful, thorough, practical, earnest, serious, expeditious, disciplined, trim, spruce Examples from the Web for well-ordered Contemporary Examples of well-ordered

The past suddenly barged into my well-ordered American life and seemed more urgent than the present.

In Syria, Europe & Boston, the Past Is Never Finished

Kati Marton

May 11, 2013

Historical Examples of well-ordered

Yes, he said, that is what will happen in a well-ordered State.

The Republic

Plato

But, I said, a temperate state will be a well-ordered state.

Charmides

Plato

In this nice, well-ordered age I’m a killer and everybody knows it.

Measure for a Loner

James Judson Harmon

At noon the scene presented the appearance of an immense but well-ordered fair.

Tancred

Benjamin Disraeli

It comes, I have no doubt, to every well-ordered man to be in love once.

The Romance of an Old Fool

Roswell Field

British Dictionary definitions for well-ordered well-ordered adjective

1. logic maths (of a relation) having the property that every nonempty subset of its field has a least member under the relation: less than is well-ordered on the natural numbers but not on the reals, since an open set has no least member

Word Origin and History for well-ordered adj.

c.1600, from well (adv.) + past participle of order.