baseless

adjective

Definition of baselessnext
as in unreasonable
having no basis in reason or fact baseless rumors that the baseball player was using steroids

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for baseless
  1. unreasonable
  2. unfounded
  3. groundless
  4. unsubstantiated
Adjective
  • Left in the dust ‘Cruise’ driverless robot taxis are seen at a parking lot as California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) revokes its self-driving car permit and citing ‘unreasonable risk to public safety’ in San Francisco, California, USA on October 24, 2023.
    Kristian Burt, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
  • To determine whether those amounts posed an unreasonable risk of harm, the agency compared them to a specific benchmark — the highest concentration of formaldehyde measured by government monitors in outdoor air between 2015 and 2020.
    Sharon Lerner and Al Shaw, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of unreasonable
Adjective
  • This charge, no less than a modern-day blood libel, is just the latest attack in Amnesty's longstanding campaign of lawfare against and vilification of the State of Israel, having previously accused the Jewish state of the equally unfounded charge of apartheid.
    Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Warrior Essentials is one of many companies that trade on unfounded theories about the dangers of vaccines, which have proliferated in the alt-right social media landscape since the pandemic — ideas that are not backed by science.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of unfounded
Adjective
  • Yet there’s much more to be said about Ohanian’s original article, as well as the glee with which conservatives seized on its headline claim as the basis for largely groundless attacks on California’s economic policies.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
  • That’s based on the groundless notion that disability is easy to apply for and receive.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of groundless
Adjective
  • Lake has not conceded either race and frequently tried—and failed—to overturn the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial results in court, citing unsubstantiated claims of voting irregularities.
    Ewan Palmer, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
  • On Rogan’s show, Trump repeated unsubstantiated GOP claims that the doubts sowed about the laptop’s authenticity somehow helped President Biden’s election.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 26 Oct. 2024
Definition of unsubstantiated
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