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Word Meanings - UNFOUNDED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Not founded; not built or established. Milton. 2. Having no foundation; baseless; vain; idle; as, unfounded expectations. Paley.

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  • FALSENESS
    The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
  • FALSE-FACED
    Hypocritical. Shak.
  • CHIMERICAL
    Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects. Syn. -- Imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wild; unfounded; vain; deceitful; delusive.
  • FALSETTO
    A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
  • GROUNDLESS
    Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n.
  • CHIMERICALLY
    Wildy; vainly; fancifully.
  • GRATUITOUS
    1. Given without an equivalent or recompense; conferred without valuable consideration; granted without pay, or without claim or merit; not required by justice. We mistake the gratuitous blessings of Heaven for the fruits of our own industry.
  • FANCIFUL
    1. Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects. 2. Conceived in the fancy; not consistent with facts or reason; abounding in ideal qualities or figures; as, a fanciful
  • SUPPOSITITIOUS
    1. Fraudulently substituted for something else; not being what is purports to be; not genuine; spurious; counterfeit; as, a supposititious child; a supposititious writing. Bacon. 2. Suppositional; hypothetical. Woodward. -- Sup*pos`i*ti"tious*ly,
  • FALSE
    Not in tune. False arch , a member having the appearance of an arch, though not of arch construction. -- False attic, an architectural erection above the main cornice, concealing a roof, but not having windows or inclosing rooms. -- False bearing,
  • FALSE-HEARTED
    Hollow or unsound at the core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious. Bacon. -- False"*heart`ed*ness, n. Bp. Stillingfleet.
  • BASELESS
    Without a base; having no foundation or support. "The baseless fabric of this vision." Shak.
  • FALSEHOOD
    1. Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity. Though it be a lie in the clock, it is but a falsehood in the hand of the dial when pointing at a wrong hour, if rightly following the direction
  • FALSER
    A deceiver. Spenser.
  • FALSELY
    In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or treacherously. "O falsely, falsely murdered." Shak. Oppositions of science, falsely so called. 1 Tim. vi. 20. Will ye steal, murder . . . and swear falsely Jer. vii. 9.
  • FALSE-HEART
    False-hearted. Shak.
  • UNFOUNDED
    1. Not founded; not built or established. Milton. 2. Having no foundation; baseless; vain; idle; as, unfounded expectations. Paley.

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