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adjective
- 1. not based on any good reason: "your fears are quite groundless"
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adjective. uk / ˈɡraʊnd.ləs / us / ˈɡraʊnd.ləs / Add to word list. without cause: My fears turned out to be groundless. Synonyms. baseless formal. unfounded. unwarranted formal. wild accusation/guess/rumour. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Too much and unnecessary. ado. be up to your neck (in something) idiom. bellyful. binge.
: having no ground or foundation. groundless fears. groundlessly adverb. groundlessness noun. Synonyms. baseless. foundationless. invalid. nonvalid. unfounded. unreasonable. unsubstantiated. unsupported. unwarranted. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of groundless in a Sentence.
adjective. us / ˈɡraʊnd.ləs / uk / ˈɡraʊnd.ləs / Add to word list. without cause: My fears turned out to be groundless. Synonyms. baseless formal. unfounded. unwarranted formal. wild accusation/guess/rumour. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Too much and unnecessary. ado. be up to your neck (in something) idiom. bellyful. binge.
Definition of groundless adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Something that's groundless isn't valid or justified, like your groundless fear that you failed your math quiz, even though you studied and knew all the material. Grounds are "factors forming the justification for a belief," and when you don't have any such grounds, your belief is groundless.
groundless. (graʊndləs ) adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE] If you say that a fear, accusation, or story is groundless, you mean that it is not based on evidence and is unlikely to be true or valid. Fears that the world was about to run out of fuel proved groundless.
Groundless definition: without rational basis. See examples of GROUNDLESS used in a sentence.
