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groundless

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1. groundless - Adjective

2. groundless - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Groundless superstition ill becomes an army; Valour is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast. Silius Italicus

Such groundless fears will arise in the mind, before it has resumed its vigour after sleep! James Boswell

A woman capable of recollection in danger, of warding off groundless panics, of discerning the true mode of proceeding, and profiting by her best resources, is a prodigy. Charles Brockden Brown

Of our desires some are natural and necessary, others are natural but not necessary; and others are neither natural nor necessary, but are due to groundless opinion. Epicurus

The simple fact was that she no longer hated them as a matter of principle. It was also a source of shameful amazement that she could ever have wasted so much energy on groundless prejudice, when acceptance and tolerance would have been the easier, even the lazier, course. Alastair Reynolds

She came naturally by her confused and groundless fears, for her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. James Thurber

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