baseless
baseless
Definition
base·less (bās′lis)
adjective
having no basis in fact; unfounded
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.
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