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baseless Definition

base·less (bāslis)

adjective

having no basis in fact; unfounded

baseless Related Forms
base·less·ness noun
baseless Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • accusation: To discuss or debate such baseless accusations only lends them credibility.
  • allegation: I don't know where these baseless allegations have come from.
  • fabric: They are fallen like the baseless fabric of a vision.
  • statement: There is no point stating rubbish like this if you can't provide decent evidence to back up your rash and completely baseless statements.
  • fear: I don't doubt you do, yet real dread of misfortune often causes me to suffer baseless fears.
  • rumor: Mr Beckett said, " The original design did not anticipate the volume of baseless rumor with which we now have to deal.

Modifying Another Word

  • completely: There is no point stating rubbish like this if you can't provide decent evidence to back up your rash and completely baseless statements.
  • absolutely: Of course such claims for which there is no historical documentation are absolutely baseless.
  • entirely: Thus, the " doomsday " projections by early writers were not entirely baseless.
  • apparently: For more on the meditations of Trout and reflections on customers ' apparently baseless, and irksome concerns, go here.
  • quite: They seem to divide drugs into hard and soft drugs: a division that is quite baseless according to Divine law.

Used with adjective complement

  • prove: Tabloid rumors in the latter half of 2004 that Graham Coxon was to rejoin the band proved baseless.