Unfounded
[ʌn'faʊndɪd]
Definition
(a.) Not founded; not built or established.
(a.) Having no foundation; baseless; vain; idle; as, unfounded expectations.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:false, groundless, baseless, vain, idle,[See HAPPY]
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Definition
adj. not founded or established: having no foundation baseless: (Milt.) without bottom bottomless.—adv. Unfoun′dedly.
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Examples
- But the conclusion seems to me utterly unfounded. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Finding my apprehensions unfounded, however, and calmed by the deep silence that reigned as evening declined at nightfall, I took confidence. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I mean: no matter how unfounded they were. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- This contention is unworthy of both of us; and I confess that I am weary of replying to charges at once unfounded and unkind. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Democracy has put an unfounded faith in automatic contrivances. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Archer had left her with the conviction that Count Olenski's accusation was not unfounded. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He had not heard her divorce spoken of since Janey's first random allusion to it, and had dismissed the tale as unfounded gossip. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The gloom of her first anticipations was proved to have been unfounded. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- More than any other fetish it has ruined our sense of political values by glorifying the pharisee with his vain cruelty to individuals and his unfounded approval of himself. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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