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groundless

[ ground-lis ]

adjective

  1. without rational basis:

    groundless fears.

    Synonyms: unjustified, idle, unfounded, baseless



groundless

/ ˈɡraʊndlɪs /

adjective

  1. without reason or justification

    his suspicions were groundless



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Derived Forms

  • ˈgroundlessly, adverb
  • ˈgroundlessness, noun

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Other Words From

  • groundless·ly adverb
  • groundless·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of groundless1

before 900; Middle English: bottomless, unfathomable; Old English grundlēas. See ground 1, -less

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Example Sentences

I can say all of this without hesitation because these concerns have been investigated and found to be groundless.

King: We must expunge from our society the myths and half-truths that engender such groundless fears as these.

“It is not a question of starting an investigation over a case that is groundless,” he said.

The supposedly groundless scoop about the missing hacker highlighted a week of PR problems for the Vatican bank.

At the most basic legal level, the charges of plagiarism are groundless.

He was beginning to hope that Romanoff had been playing a practical joke on him, and that all his fears were groundless.

Your anxiety lest any coldness should arise between Mr. E. and me will, I hope, prove groundless.

Ormsby attacked me hotly for trying to excite a groundless alarm, and I was recommended to hold my tongue and go to sleep.

But a still more satisfactory answer is, that the apprehension of danger is groundless, and therefore the whole argument fails.

For his assumption, groundless in every case, is false in a peculiar degree with respect to those sensible qualities.

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