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Unfounded vs Unbounded - What's the difference?

unfounded | unbounded |

As adjectives the difference between unfounded and unbounded

is that unfounded is having no strong foundation; not based on solid reasons or facts while unbounded is having no boundaries or limits.

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

    unbounded

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • having no boundaries or limits
  • :The universe is finite but unbounded
  • :Our everlasting, unbounded love

    • Derived terms

    *unbounded manifold *unbounded nondeterminism *unbounded set *unbounded system *unbounded wave