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UK
/ɡɹˈaʊndləs/
]
[ US /ˈɡɹaʊndɫəs/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹaʊndɫəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
without a basis in reason or fact
unwarranted jealousy
baseless gossip
idle fears
unfounded suspicions
the allegations proved groundless
How To Use groundless In A Sentence
- In nature there are no groundless talk, the earth will not form.
- She told herself he was right, that her worries were groundless. FINAL RESORT
- The suggestion that the President violated section 1503's prohibition on "influenc [ing], obstruct [ing], or imped [ing] the due administration of justice" is groundless. Initial Response To Referral Of Office Of Independent Counsel
- News reports in December indicating that there had been an attempted coup were subsequently dismissed by Jawara as groundless rumours.
- Of course, the moment I got there it was clear that all my concerns were completely groundless.
- God without Being: "the Ungrund is contaminated from the start by the universe it subtends, making the impulse to misrecognize the groundless as the primal ground, and thereby firmly reappropriate it to ontotheology, quite irresistible"; Hegel on Buddhism
- Miss Margland, who, sideling towards the window, on pretence of examining a print, had heard and seen all that had passed, was almost overpowered with rage, by the conviction she received that her apprehensions were not groundless. Camilla
- I can say with confidence that such rumors were totally groundless.
- Whether it is a matter of giving to charity, sticking to duty or insisting on our rights, we can be confused or paralysed by the fear that our principles are groundless.
- Nothing sticks so fast in the mind as a groundless sense of guilt, Kafka told his friend.