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ill-founded

ill-founded adjective: unsubstantiated, not based on fact or evidence.

Adjective

ill-founded (comparative more ill-founded, superlative most ill-founded)

  1. Unsubstantiated, not based on fact or evidence.
    • ill-founded criticism
    • He said, the part of the sentence which stated that the court “having heard the evidence, and maturely and seriously considered the whole, are of opinion that the charge is malicious and ill-founded: […]”1814, Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England: From the Norman Conquest, in 1066 to the Year 1803., page 1155

ill-founded meaning in Malayalam

ill-founded in Malayalam

baseless, groundless, without foundation
അടിസ്ഥാനമില്ലാത്ത, ശരിയായ അടിത്തറയില്ലാത്ത, ദുരധിഷ്ഠിത, അടിസ്ഥാനരഹിതമായ, നിരാധാര, നിർമ്മൂല

Synonyms of ill-founded

Antonyms

Forms of ill-founded

comparativemore ill-founded
superlativemost ill-founded

Questions about ill-founded

What does ill-founded mean?
Ill-founded means unsubstantiated, not based on fact or evidence.
What is ill-founded in Malayalam?
Ill-founded in Malayalam is അടിസ്ഥാനമില്ലാത്ത, ശരിയായ അടിത്തറയില്ലാത്ത, ദുരധിഷ്ഠിത. See Ill-founded meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is ill-founded?
Ill-founded is an adjective.

Words near ill-founded in the dictionary

  1. ill-fitting
  2. ill-formed
  3. ill-formedness
  4. ill-fortune
  5. ill-fortunes
  6. ill-founded
  7. ill-got gains
  8. ill-gotten
  9. ill-gotten gains
  10. ill-gotten gains never prosper
  11. ill-groomed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ill-founded (page history and authors); ill-founded (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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