Synonym: baseless, groundless, idle, unwarranted, wild. Similar words: confounded, founded, dumbfounded, confound, founder, wounded, bounded, ungrounded. Meaning: adj. without a basis in reason or fact.
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(1) Her trust in him was unfounded.
(2) Avoid making intuitively obvious but unfounded assertions.
(3) There were unfounded rumours of alcohol abuse.
(4) Unfounded rumours began circulating that Ian and Susan were having an affair.
(5) There are still some unfounded fears floating around out there about cancer being contagious.
(6) These claims were not altogether unfounded.
(7) Speculation about a divorce proved totally unfounded.
(8) We hold that their proposal is unfounded.
(9) Sadly, my optimism proved unfounded.
(10) The claims are, I repeat, totally unfounded.
(11) Our fears proved unfounded.
(12) He might find them totally unfounded.
(13) Their bitterness then, is understandable and not altogether unfounded.
(14) Yakovlev acquiesced in this polemical and unfounded notion.
(15) Sadly, though, my optimism proved unfounded.
(16) The allegations were totally unfounded.
(17) Suspicions of a government cover-up are entirely unfounded.
(18) We now realise that these claims are totally unfounded.
(19) Your report last week was unfair. It was based upon wholly unfounded and totally unjustified allegations.
(20) I'm pleased to see that our fears about the weather proved totally unfounded.
(21) She had serious misgivings about the whole affair,[sentencedict.com] but they proved unfounded.
(22) They have been reluctant to admit AIDS patients, in part because of unfounded fears of contagion.
(23) That Pheidias died in prison under mysterious circumstances, as Plutarch says, is a later and unfounded tradition. Sentencedict.com
(24) But today, a year since John McCarthy's homecoming, their worst dread has proved unfounded.
(25) Initial fears that oil from the tanker would cause an environmental hazard proved unfounded.
(26) They lived in the same apartment block and often dined together, creating unfounded rumours that they were having an affair.
(27) Nothing so tempts us to believe outright lies and unfounded stories posing as science than the sensationalistic schlock therein.
(28) Voters with a penchant for hair splitting might have rejected the warnings as the unfounded contentions of the Prop. 140 opponents.
(29) Of the 40,000 asylum applications made last year, nine out of 10 were unfounded.
(30) But he said the young man's fears that he would fail his exams were almost certainly unfounded.
More similar words: confounded, founded, dumbfounded, confound, founder, wounded, bounded, ungrounded, surrounded, found, underground, profound, dumbfound, funded, foundation, founding father, undecided, foundation stone, flounder, unfold, round and round, unfortunate, unfortunately, fountain, ended, minded, offended, extended, undivided, descended.