ill-founded

Word family

ˌill-ˈfounded adjectiveadj formal

UNTRUEbased on something that is untrue 理由不充分的，没有根据的，站不住脚的

His fears proved ill-founded.

他的恐惧事实证明是杞人忧天。

Examples from the Corpus

ill-founded• But any doubts about Marillion's future were clearly ill-founded.• The experience of the 1970s, further, demonstrated that the principal argument in favour of flexible exchange rates was ill-founded.• Suppositions built on postcards and photographs might be as ill-founded as his short-lived suspicions of being followed the night before.• The trouble is that the revised version of the legend of the Courts of Love is as ill-founded as the old one.• The whole enterprise was ill-founded from the start.• But the case of Auerbach merely serves to illustrate how ill-founded the criterion is.• ill-founded worries

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ill-founded

Not definite or based on fact: apparently, supposed, alleged...