Groundless

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Groundless \Ground"less\, a. [AS. grundle['a]s bottomless.]
     Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for
     support; not authorized; false; baseless; as, groundless
     fear; a groundless report, rumor, or assertion. --
     {Ground"less*ly}, adv. -- {Ground"less*ness}, n.



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  groundless
       adj : without a basis in reason or fact; "baseless gossip"; "the
             allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears";
             "unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy" [syn: {baseless},
              {idle}, {unfounded}, {unwarranted}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  58 Moby Thesaurus words for "groundless":
     baseless, bottomless, built on sand, chimerical, empty, flimsy,
     gratuitous, hypothetical, idle, ill-founded, illusory, imaginary,
     inconclusive, indecisive, not following, not proved,
     not well-founded, speculative, suppositional, tenuous,
     unascertained, unattested, unauthenticated, unbased, uncalled-for,
     uncertified, unconfirmed, uncorroborated, undemonstrated,
     undetermined, unestablished, unfixed, unfounded, ungrounded,
     unjustifiable, unjustified, unproved, unproven, unreasonable,
     unsettled, unshown, unsound, unsubstantiated, unsupportable,
     unsupported, unsupported by evidence, unsustainable, unsustained,
     untenable, untested, untried, unvalidated, unverified, unwarranted,
     vain, without basis, without foundation, without grounds