Unfounded
adjective
Not based on fact or reason.
His accusations were completely unfounded.
Often appears as...
- unfounded accusations
- unfounded rumors
adjective
Not based on fact or reason.
His accusations were completely unfounded.
Often appears as...
- unfounded accusations
- unfounded rumors
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Use 'unfounded' to express strong disagreement or dismissal of an unsupported claim.
The company dismissed the whistleblower's claims as unfounded.
Pro Tip 2/3Speculation Rejection
'Unfounded' suggests that there is a lack of evidence behind a statement or belief.
Rumors of the principal's retirement are unfounded.
Pro Tip 3/3Sensitive Contexts
Using 'unfounded' can be sensitive; it often denies claims that may affect reputations.
The police reported the allegations of misconduct to be unfounded.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Use 'unfounded' to express strong disagreement or dismissal of an unsupported claim.
The company dismissed the whistleblower's claims as unfounded.
Pro Tip 2/3Speculation Rejection
'Unfounded' suggests that there is a lack of evidence behind a statement or belief.
Rumors of the principal's retirement are unfounded.
Pro Tip 3/3Sensitive Contexts
Using 'unfounded' can be sensitive; it often denies claims that may affect reputations.
The police reported the allegations of misconduct to be unfounded.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Use 'unfounded' to express strong disagreement or dismissal of an unsupported claim.
The company dismissed the whistleblower's claims as unfounded.
Pro Tip 2/3Speculation Rejection
'Unfounded' suggests that there is a lack of evidence behind a statement or belief.
Rumors of the principal's retirement are unfounded.
Pro Tip 3/3Sensitive Contexts
Using 'unfounded' can be sensitive; it often denies claims that may affect reputations.
The police reported the allegations of misconduct to be unfounded.
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baselessfalsegroundlessspeculateunjustifiedunsubstantiatedunsupportedvalidwarrant
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How pandemics spread
and more than 1,000 people were dead. For all that the virus was rapidly contained, however, there was little that could be done about the alarming news reports carried by cable news channels and the Internet. As bloggers added to the hysteria by spreading unfounded conspiracy theories,
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German Theologian
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Dutch Historian
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Henry Knox
American Soldier
Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.
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Steve Backshall
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Lisa Cholodenko
American Director
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Michael Fish
English Celebrity
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Clarence Thomas
American Judge
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Friedrich Schleiermacher
German Theologian
The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.
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Aldous Huxley
English Novelist
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
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Rutger Bregman
Dutch Historian
News reports following a natural disaster are almost always dominated by stories of looting and violence, but in many cases such stories turn out to be unfounded speculations based on rumour.
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Henry Knox
American Soldier
Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.
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Steve Backshall
It's going to sound terribly glib and cliched but the more I learn about animals, the more convinced I am that almost all the fears we have about them are unfounded.
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Lisa Cholodenko
American Director
The source of so much of my anxiety in life and the tensions in my relationship is my anxiety about my kid. It's all very abstract and unfounded and ungrounded.
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Rachel Cusk
Canadian Novelist
To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.
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Claire Saffitz
American Editor
Turkey burgers receive a fair amount of disparagement, and it's not unfounded.
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Michael Fish
English Celebrity
Reports of a hurricane are unfounded.
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