0 If a claim or piece of news is unfounded, it is not based on fact:
1 (of a claim or piece of news) not based on fact; untrue:
unfounded rumors
It turned out that such concerns were largely unfounded.
This fear is unfounded, provided the therapist is adequately trained.
For the reasons outlined below, we believe that these concerns are unfounded.
We dispute this and show in what follows that the arguments put forward by the proponents of the latter view are unfounded.
Unfounded sets and well-founded semantics for general logic programs.
We must study how expectations of gender are not just local, but play off of larger societal expectations and stereotypes, whether founded or unfounded.
Its corollary was that claims that were unable to meet these strict criteria of validity were discounted or disparaged as 'unfounded'.
Here, as in the case of sensationalist (and largely unfounded) newspaper reports, women and children take centre-stage.