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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unfounded
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a worry is unfounded (=there is no reason to worry)
▪ Fortunately their worries were unfounded and the astronauts returned safely to Earth.
false/unfounded
▪ He says that the rumours are completely unfounded.
▪ False rumors began to spread that troops were massing on the border.
unfounded/groundless (=not based on facts or reason)
▪ The accusation is totally unfounded.
▪ The embassy denied what it called groundless accusations about its involvement in the attack.
unfounded/unsubstantiated (=not based on truth or evidence)
▪ These claims of discrimination are completely unfounded.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
totally
▪ He might find them totally unfounded.
▪ We now realise that these claims are totally unfounded.
■ NOUN
claim
▪ We need to be able to determine accurately and fairly those with unfounded claims.
▪ This implies that everything listed as a mental disorder in the handbook has a biological contribution, a patently unfounded claim.
rumours
▪ They lived in the same apartment block and often dined together, creating unfounded rumours that they were having an affair.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All the signs indicate that the general's optimism is unfounded.
▪ I am going to prove to you that your suspicions are entirely unfounded
▪ Suspicions of a government cover-up are entirely unfounded.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He could hear his piping London voice with its parrot greetings and unfounded optimism.
▪ It turned out that my suspicions were unfounded, but all the time my memories were coming back.
▪ Much of this toll is preventable, including that related to unfounded fears of infection.
▪ Of the 40,000 asylum applications made last year, nine out of 10 were unfounded.
▪ They had hoped those fears would prove unfounded yesterday, but the rhetoric only got more vituperative.
▪ We are amazed that a fellow professional has stooped so low as to make such unfounded comments in the papers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unfounded

Unfounded \Un*found"ed\, a.

  1. Not founded; not built or established.
    --Milton.

  2. Having no foundation; baseless; vain; idle; as, unfounded expectations.
    --Paley.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unfounded

1640s, "having no foundation or basis," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of found (v.1).

Wiktionary
unfounded

a. 1 Having no strong foundation; not based on solid reasons or facts. 2 Not having been founded or instituted.

WordNet
unfounded

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

Usage examples of "unfounded".

My accusation was unfounded and malicious, and I should answer this as well as the previous outrage, when the vow of the Crusaders to keep peace among themselves was at an end.

Eisenhower was much upset, and seemed deeply stirred with anger at what he considered most unjust and unfounded charges about our good faith.

Government decided not to make any reply to this most wounding and unfounded charge, but to ignore it.

The other charge that he demanded a favor in this purchase as compensation for a ruling he had made as Speaker was, in my judgment, equally unfounded and trivial.

It did not seem to me that I ought to do either, especially in the case of a man whose offence had not been merely against me, but who had made a gross and unfounded attack upon the memory of my father, and of whose personal and public character I entertained the opinion I had so often publicly expressed.

But the prejudice against it of the strict teetotalers had occasioned some entirely unfounded scandal about its management in other matters.

Never was a sentence uttered in parliament where the religious feelings and opinions of the people were concerned, even by Lord Brougham himself, more unfounded in fact.

She did not want to construct a case against him where none existed, basically because she realized just how damaging it could be to be the object of an unreasonable and unfounded suspicion.

I am glad to find are unfounded, and he implores you to come on to Moseley Hall, where he feels sure you will be safe.

That should make everything nice and clear for whoever might give a toss for all your slanderous and unfounded allegations.

I was behaving outrageously, unprofessionally and intimidatingly, and that my completely unfounded allegations were preposterous.

Athera would see his unfounded presumptions shattered in one day, a sentence written in running blood on the spring green banks of Tal Quorin.

In IAD, complaints were classified at the end as sustained, unsustained or unfounded.

Prew looked at the great solid bulk of him, utterly unshakable, and grinned, loving him for his unshakability in what in the last month had become an unfounded maelstrom of the whole universe.

Indeed, Lord Holger might have thought Kurnoss fears about the bandits were unfounded, except for two things.