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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
- Such groundless critiques, however, have contributed to the perception of Washington as a Neanderthal man.
- Fears of a whitewash might well prove groundless.
- No, what I want is to recenter her groundless assertions to a trans perspective. Tonight we’re going to party like it’s 1985
- Not every criticism of this particular innovation is groundless. Times, Sunday Times
- I have also heard a lot of groundless and irrational fears that have stemmed from scaremongers.
- But her fears were groundless: the generation gap in this instance had him beached on a far shore.
- They see the book as ‘underpinned by groundless fears and moral panic’.
- A ministry official described the report as groundless.
- Fear of death seems to me to be a phobia, i.e. an unreasonable, groundless fear.
- The final, however, was worthy of the occasion and the fears that Germany would reduce the game to a mindless bore proved groundless.