unfounded

English

Etymology

un- +‎ founded

Adjective

unfounded (not comparable)

Having no strong foundation; not based on solid reasons or facts.
Not having been founded or instituted.
- 1980, Helen Louise Gardner, ‎John Carey, English Renaissance studies (page 268)
  Even the great world as yet undiscovered, the cities as yet unfounded, and the history as yet unwritten, are lost: fallen from the beginning.
(obsolete) bottomless
(Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)

Synonyms

(not based on solid reasons or facts): baseless, groundless, ungrounded

Translations

not based on solid reasons or facts

Bulgarian: неоснователен (bg) (neosnovatelen), необоснован (bg) (neobosnovan)
Catalan: infundat
Chinese:
Mandarin: 莫須有 (zh), 莫须有 (zh) (mòxūyǒu)
Czech: nepodložený m
Finnish: perusteeton (fi), perätön (fi)
French: non fondé, dénué de fondement, infondé (fr), sans fondement
Georgian: უსაფუძვლო (usapuʒvlo)
German: unbegründet (de), grundlos (de)
Hungarian: alaptalan (hu), megalapozatlan
Japanese: 根拠のない (ja) (こんきょのない, konkyo no nai)

Kurdish: bêbingeh (ku)
Maori: mākiri
Norwegian:
Bokmål: grunnløs, grunnlaus, ubegrunnet

Nynorsk: grunnlaus
Polish: bezpodstawny (pl)
Portuguese: infundado (pt)
Russian: беспо́чвенный (ru) (bespóčvennyj), безоснова́тельный (ru) (bezosnovátelʹnyj), необосно́ванный (ru) (neobosnóvannyj)
Spanish: que no tiene ni pies ni cabeza
Swedish: ogrundad (sv), grundlös (sv), obefogad (sv)

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