UNFOUNDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unfounded mean? 

• UNFOUNDED (adjective)
  The adjective UNFOUNDED has 1 sense:

1. without a basis in reason or fact

  Familiarity information: UNFOUNDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNFOUNDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without a basis in reason or fact

Synonyms:

baseless; groundless; idle; unfounded; unwarranted; wild

Context example:

unwarranted jealousy

Similar:

unsupported (not sustained or maintained by nonmaterial aid)

 Context examples 

"She could not make a very long history, I think, of one such little article of unfounded news."

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The gloom of her first anticipations was proved to have been unfounded.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Finding my apprehensions unfounded, however, and calmed by the deep silence that reigned as evening declined at nightfall, I took confidence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Miss Tilney gently hinted her fear of being late; and in half a minute they ran downstairs together, in an alarm not wholly unfounded, for General Tilney was pacing the drawing-room, his watch in his hand, and having, on the very instant of their entering, pulled the bell with violence, ordered Dinner to be on table directly!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She had soon the mortification of seeing Mr Elliot withdraw, and no one of proper condition has since presented himself to raise even the unfounded hopes which sunk with him.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

They judged it best that Lady Bertram should not be harassed by alarms which, it was to be hoped, would prove unfounded; but there was no reason why Fanny should not know the truth.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)