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Definitions

well-ordered

[wel-awr-derd] / ˈwɛlˈɔr dərd /
ADJECTIVE
businesslike
Synonyms
STRONGEST
diligent disciplined earnest expeditious matter-of-fact methodical orderly practical purposeful serious thorough
WEAK
accomplished careful concentrated correct direct effective enterprising hardworking industrious intent organized painstaking practiced regular routine sedulous skillful systematic workaday
Antonyms
STRONGEST
disorganized flippant thoughtless trivial unimportant unserious
WEAK
amateur inefficient unbusinesslike unprofessional
ADJECTIVE
systematic
Synonyms
STRONGEST
efficient methodical organized precise standardized
WEAK
analytical arranged businesslike complete logical methodic ordered out-and-out regular set-up systematized thoroughgoing
Antonyms
WEAK
chaotic confused disorderly mixed up unmethodical unsystematic
ADJECTIVE
tidy
Synonyms
STRONGEST
orderly sleek snug well-kept
STRONG
ordered spruce trim uncluttered
WEAK
apple-pie order businesslike chipper cleanly in good shape methodical neat as a pin shipshape spick-and-span systematic to rights well-groomed
Antonyms
STRONG
unkempt
WEAK
chaotic dirty disordered disorganized inconsequential inconsiderable littered little messy sloppy slovenly small unclean unsubstantial untidy

Example Sentences

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It should be possible—and it is essential to a well-ordered society—to call out morally reprehensible behavior by your own side as well as by your opponents.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

Local resident Reka told me she couldn't understand how an attack like this could have happened in her well-ordered city.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2025

Three years later, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture whisked them off to a quaint fictional village in the west of England, zigzagging through arable fields and well-ordered front gardens.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2024

Crystalline semiconductors possess a well-ordered atomic or molecular structure while amorphous semiconductors lack such regularity.

From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2024

She shows her power where there is no well-ordered virtue to resist her, and therefore turns her impetus towards where she knows no dikes and dams have been constructed to hold her in.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.