Unbased

/ʌnˈbeɪst/ · adjective

Meaning

Without a sound basis; unfounded; baseless..

Definitions by Sense

1. Without a sound basis; unfounded; baseless.
2. (Internet slang, 4chan slang, especially of a political stance or statement) Not based; cringeworthy, contemptible.
3. simple past and past participle of unbase

Example Sentences

We have the feudal state in the gloomy and Gothic grandeur of Northumberland House; we pass along the Strand, where Jack Cade pursued his brief triumph—the prototype of every popular insurrection unbased on any great principle—sudden, cruel, and useless!

To revive questions supposed to be long since settled, may be thought to need some apology; but there is a sufficient apology in the implication above made clear, that the theory commonly accepted is ill-based or unbased.

Such stumbling and unbased coincidences are often cited as indicative of some supernatural source of knowledge possessed by children and persons of the genius type; but if the unbased statements made of such persons the world over should be placed in one list, and the facts as later determined to be true should be placed in another, it seems that the laws of coincidence would govern the situation completely.

But the strangler's disquiet proved unbased. The snarl opened its jaws and Shelyid popped out, none the worse for wear.

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• more unbased
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