ill-founded

English

Adjective

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

1. Unsubstantiated, not based on fact or evidence.

   Synonyms: baseless, flimsy, groundless, unjustified

   Antonym: well-founded

   ill-founded criticism

   • 1814, Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England: From the Norman Conquest, in 1066 to the Year 1803., page 1155:

     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: […] ”

   • 1946 September and October, “The Four Railway Manias”, in Railway Magazine, page 269:

     Optimism rose to a third peak in 1846, when the eagerness of investors to take up shares in new companies precipitated a financial panic in which many ill-founded schemes perished.