3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Unfounded \Un*found"ed\, adjective
1. Not founded; not built or established. --Milton.
2. Having no foundation; baseless; vain; idle; as, unfounded
expectations. --Paley.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: unfounded
adjective
1: without a basis in reason or fact; "baseless gossip"; "the
allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears";
"unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy" [syn: {baseless},
{groundless}, {idle}, {unwarranted}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 104 Moby Thesaurus words for "unfounded":
Barmecidal, Barmecide, airy, apparent, apparitional, autistic,
baseless, bottomless, chimeric, contrary to fact, deceptive,
delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, dishonest,
dreamlike, dreamy, empty, erroneous, fallacious, false, fantastic,
garbled, gratuitous, groundless, idle, ill-founded, illusional,
illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, in error, inauthentic,
inconclusive, indecisive, mendacious, miscited, misleading,
misquoted, misreported, misstated, not following, not proved,
not true, ostensible, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, seeming,
self-deceptive, self-deluding, specious, spectral, spurious,
supposititious, truthless, unactual, unascertained, unattested,
unauthentic, unauthenticated, unauthoritative, unbased,
uncalled-for, uncertified, unconfirmed, uncorroborated,
undemonstrated, undetermined, unestablished, unfixed, ungrounded,
unjustifiable, unjustified, unproved, unproven, unreal, unreliable,
unsettled, unshown, unsound, unsubstantial, unsubstantiated,
unsupportable, unsupported, unsupported by evidence, unsustainable,
unsustained, untenable, untested, untried, untrue, untruthful,
unvalidated, unverified, unwarranted, vain, visionary,
without basis, without foundation, without grounds
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