| 词汇 | groundless |
| 释义 | groundless adjective uk /ˈɡraʊnd.ləs/ us /ˈɡraʊnd.ləs/ without cause: 无理由的，毫无根据的 My fears turned out to be groundless.结果证明我的担心毫无根据。 Synonyms baselessformal unfounded unwarrantedformal wild accusation/guess/rumour Too much and unnecessary ado be up to your neck (in something)idiom bellyful binge carry/take coals to Newcastleidiom drown gush hyper immoderate immoderately inappeasable inessential infest plenty pleonasm pleonastic plethora proliferation unwarranted weigh someone/something down groundless | American Dictionarygroundless adjective us/ˈɡrɑʊnd·ləs/ without a reason, cause, or argument: Your concerns are groundless. Examples of groundlessgroundless Undoubtedly, many of those attacks were groundless, paranoid and motivated by fear. He concludes that they are largely groundless myths. The first claim is groundless; the second is false. The book helps any reader shed such groundless prejudice. The most damaging argument against referendums - that they prompt intolerance - was found to be groundless in the case examined. By any reasonable standard, these worries proved groundless. But such a conjecture is, for now, groundless. For those intellectuals who held optimistic views of democracy, such an anxiety was no more than an imaginary or groundless fear. On this occasion, rumours proved to be groundless, but the public reacted promptly to unpromising events. If we remain within the frame of our conventional cognitions, most metaphysical-theological propositions become groundless. The introduction of new elements - say, genetically modified organisms - to a system that we cannot control understandably creates fears and anxieties that are not totally groundless. However, her fears proved groundless. Such fears were not groundless. Starkey makes several groundless challenges to my conclusions. The modern production of knowledge proceeds against the background of a groundless/objectless suspicion, which in turn exposes that epistemic production as a technology of power. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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