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Adjective

baseless ‎(not comparable)

1. Of reasoning: based on something that is not true.

   baseless accusations; baseless rumors‎

   • 2016 January 31, "Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?," Vanity Fair (retrieved 21 January 2016):

     But Rodríguez says, “Neither the law nor the facts support Senator Grassley’s baseless allegations and extrapolated conclusions.

2. Without a physical base.
   • 2009, Penelope Curtis, On the meanings of sculpture in painting (volume 1, page 18)

     More significant still — and most obviously in debt to the painterly imagination — this floating statue is the first baseless statue ever made. It is as though Bernini had taken Michelangelo's 'Pieta' and made it fly.

Synonyms

• groundless
• unfounded

Derived terms

• baselessly
• baselessness

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