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Unfounded vs Baseless - What's the difference?

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Baseless is a synonym of unfounded.



As adjectives the difference between unfounded and baseless

is that unfounded is having no strong foundation; not based on solid reasons or facts while baseless is of reasoning, that is based on something that is not true.

unfounded

English

Adjective

(-)
  • 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.

    Synonyms

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

    baseless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of reasoning, that is based on something that is not true.

    • Synonyms

    * unfounded

    Derived terms

    * baselessly * baselessness