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groundless
[ ground-lis ]
groundless
/ ˈɡraʊndlɪs /
adjective
- 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
- groundless·ly adverb
- groundless·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of groundless1
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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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