baseless

  • 1baseless — baseless, groundless, unfounded, unwarranted mean not justified or justifiable in any way. Baseless implies an entire lack of foundation; it imputes to a thing lack of actuality in itself or in the events or facts upon which it is supposedly… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 2Baseless — Base less, a. Without a base; having no foundation or support. The baseless fabric of this vision. Shak. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 3baseless — I adjective bottomless, empty, erroneous, false, foundationless, gratuitous, groundless, having no foundation, idle, ill founded, illogical, nonactual, not well founded, rootless, unbased, uncaused, uncorroborated, unfounded, ungrounded,… …

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  • 4baseless — c.1600, from BASE (Cf. base) (n.) + LESS (Cf. less). Related: BASELESSLY (Cf. Baselessly); baselessness …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 5baseless — [adj] without substantiation bottomless, flimsy, foundationless, gratuitous, groundless, reasonless, unconfirmed, uncorroborated, unfounded, ungrounded, unjustifiable, unjustified, unsubstantiated, unsupported, untenable, unwarranted; concept 582 …

    New thesaurus

  • 6baseless — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ not based on fact; untrue …

    English terms dictionary

  • 7baseless — [bās′lis] adj. having no basis in fact; unfounded baselessness n …

    English World dictionary

  • 8baseless — [[t]be͟ɪsləs[/t]] ADJ If you describe an accusation, rumour, or report as baseless, you mean that it is not true and is not based on facts. The government has described reports of a massacre as completely baseless... Baseless allegations have… …

    English dictionary

  • 9baseless — /bays lis/, adj. having no base; without foundation; groundless: a baseless claim. [1600 10; BASE1 + LESS] * * * …

    Universalium

  • 10baseless — adj. Baseless is used with these nouns: ↑accusation, ↑allegation, ↑charge, ↑rumour …

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