1. grounded - Adjective
2. grounded - Verb
of Ground
Source: Webster's dictionaryNothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. Milan Kundera
Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience. Charles Bukowski
Bad weather has grounded the Luftwaffe and now we must stand by and watch countless thousands of the enemy getting away to England under our noses. Franz Halder
The truth is hidden from us. Even if a mere piece of luck brings us straight to it, we shall have no grounded conviction of our success; there are so many similar objects, all claiming to be the real thing. Lucian
A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail. Plutarch
Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives. Morris Chestnut