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ill-founded

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ill-found·ed (lfoundd)
adj.
Having no factual basis.
ill-founded
adj
not founded on true or reliable premises; unsubstantiated an ill-founded rumour
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ill-founded
adjective groundless, empty, unjustified, idle, unreliable, unproven, unsubstantiated, unsupported, baseless Suspicion, however ill-founded, can poison a marriage.
Translations
ill-founded [ˈɪlˈfaʊndɪd] ADJ [claim, fear] → infundado, sin fundamento
ill-founded [ɪlˈfaʊndɪd] adj (gossip) → infondato/a; (argument) → senza fondamento
ill-founded [ɪlˈfaʊndɪd] adj (gossip) → infondato/a; (argument) → senza fondamento


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And, just as in pulling down an old house, we usually reserve the ruins to contribute towards the erection, so, in destroying such of my opinions as I judged to be Ill-founded, I made a variety of observations and acquired an amount of experience of which I availed myself in the establishment of more certain.
Reason For Discourse by Descartes, Rene View in context
Notwithstanding, therefore, all the delicacies which love had set before him, namely, the hopes of seeing Sophia at the masquerade; on which, however ill-founded his imagination might be, he had voluptuously feasted during the whole day, the evening no sooner came than Mr Jones began to languish for some food of a grosser kind.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
Edgar and Cathy would visit him, and other promises, equally ill-founded, which I invented and reiterated at intervals throughout the way.
Wuthering Heights by Bronte, Emily View in context
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