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[ UK /ɡɹˈa‍ʊndləs/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɹaʊndɫəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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.
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