Dictionary

ill-founded en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Unsubstantiated, not based on fact or evidence.
   • In fact, for all of Morgan’s game dopiness and genius timing, the biggest laugh might come from famed particle physicist Brian Cox, who—after having to listen to yet another misguided and meandering anecdote about Cunk’s mate Paul, an ill-informed fount of knowledge for our title star—finally asks: “So what does Paul do?” 2025 January 3, Christina Izzo, “Cunk On Life is brilliantly funny (and depressingly timely)”, in AV Club:
   • 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:
   • 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. 1946 September and October, “The Four Railway Manias”, in Railway Magazine, page 269:

Forms

Antonyms

well-founded · well-grounded · on solid ground

Synonyms

ill-grounded · baseless · groundless · flimsy · unjustified