groundless

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Without any grounds to support it; baseless.

   [B]e the consequences what they may, they shall not move an inch, nor a hair's-breadth from the ground of their groundless spiritual independence, […].

2. 2
   adj

   without a basis in reason or fact

3. 3
   adj

   Bottomless; having no bottom or floor.

From Middle English groundles (“bottomless”), from Old English grundlēas, from Proto-Germanic *grundulausaz, equivalent to ground + -less. Cognate with Dutch grondeloos, German Low German grundlos, German grundlos, Danish grundløs, Swedish grundlös.

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