Definitions

well-regulated

ADJECTIVE

conformable

Synonyms

WEAK

adapted agreeable alike amenable applicable assorted comparable compliant consistent docile fitted fitting harmonious in agreement like matched obedient orderly proper regular resembling similar submissive suitable suited tractable unified useable

Antonyms

WEAK

inappropriate mismatched nonconforming

ADJECTIVE

methodic

Synonyms

WEAK

all together analytical businesslike by the book by the numbers careful cut-and-dried deliberate disciplined efficient exact fixed framed in a groove logical methodized meticulous neat ordered orderly painstaking planned regular scrupulous set-up structured systematic systematical tidy together

ADJECTIVE

methodical

Synonyms

STRONGEST

analytical businesslike careful deliberate disciplined efficient meticulous orderly painstaking precise scrupulous structured systematic

WEAK

all together exact fixed framed grooved logical methodic methodized neat ordered planned regular set-up tidy together

Antonyms

STRONGEST

careless chaotic disorderly disorganized inefficient negligent thoughtless unmethodical unscrupulous unsystematic

ADJECTIVE

methodical/methodic

Synonyms

WEAK

Antonyms

WEAK

confused disorderly disorganized imprecise unmethodical/unmethodic

ADJECTIVE

systematical

Synonyms

WEAK

all together analytical businesslike by the book by the numbers careful cut-and-dried deliberate disciplined efficient exact fixed framed in a groove logical methodic methodized meticulous neat ordered orderly painstaking planned regular scrupulous set-up structured systematic tidy together

Example Sentences

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He said the industry was "well-regulated by the local authority", with checks by a vet before the season begins each year.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

Real entrepreneurship serving venturesome consumers, External link not frictionless stock trading in well-regulated casinos, keeps the U.S. economy vibrant.

From Barron's • Jan. 2, 2026

Rob Enderle, principal analyst at advisory services firm Enderle Group, said he thought the AI Safety Index was an interesting way to approach the underlying problem of AI not being well-regulated in the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

Take a look at the history of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac if you think mortgages are simple, solid and well-regulated.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 28, 2025

Cassiodorus, writing in the 6th century in southern Italy for the guidance of trainee scribes, included punctuation in his Institutions Divinarum et Saecularium Litterarum, recommending “clear pausing in well-regulated delivery”.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author

well-regulated

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