- baseless
- 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 based{
the baseless fabric of this vision— Shak.
}{he proved the rumors baseless
}{no claim could have been more utterly baseless— J. R. Green
}Groundless stresses the absence of a cause or reason; it is applied especially to thoughts, emotions, or feelings that arise seemingly from nothing and have no perceptible or justifying cause{groundless fears
}{groundless suspicions
}Unfounded sometimes implies baselessness but more often suggests lack of support or want of evidence, authority, or proof{his theory is not entirely unfounded
}{an unfounded belief
}Unwarranted emphasizes the fact of exceeding the bounds of what is authorized, sanctioned, believable, or reasonable{the unwarranted proceedings of a lower court
}{take unwarranted liberties
}{an unwarranted assumption
}
New Dictionary of Synonyms. 2014.