Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no foundation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having no foundation.
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- adjective Without
foundation ;unfounded .
Etymologies
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Examples
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If he voted the impossible the disastrous possible happened instead — and responsibility was forced on him willy-nilly and destroyed both him and his foundationless temple.
Police Need Intelligence Shock « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Contrary to Dan Klein's foundationless assertion, I did not pursue an academic career because I did not want to specialize in a discipine, not because my fragile female psyche couldn't hack conflict.
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Our action-orientation can border on hyper activity; the breadth of relationships threatens depth; creativity can overshadow commitment to orthodoxy; our irreverence towards tradition can leave us unanchored and foundationless.
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His fear is that of all ideologues, that just one dissent containing truth, reason and evidence will expose him and destroy his whole foundationless empire of unreason. '
Rush Limbaugh confesses he has no confidence in his beliefs 2008
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But what Habermas does not yet appear to realize is that this is exactly the foundationless foundation for a postmetaphysical spirituality of direct spiritual experience disclosed in postrational waves of consciousness development investigated by a good, deep science of those who have demonstrated developmental competence in those dimensions and confirmed by a reconstructive science of the entire range of human lifespan development.
Rig-Veda and not Nagarjuna Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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But what Habermas does not yet appear to realize is that this is exactly the foundationless foundation for a postmetaphysical spirituality of direct spiritual experience disclosed in postrational waves of consciousness development investigated by a good, deep science of those who have demonstrated developmental competence in those dimensions and confirmed by a reconstructive science of the entire range of human lifespan development.
Archive 2007-03-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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Because they are foundationless, they can transform.
How to See Yourself As You Really Are Dalai Lama 2006
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Because they are foundationless, they can transform.
How to See Yourself As You Really Are Dalai Lama 2006
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So, even though more politically and scientifically aware citizens are unlikely to change their minds due to Limbaugh's nonsense, I think plenty of Americans could flip the channel to Limbaugh's show, grow attracted to the hysterical, but emotionally appealing presentation of foundationless opinions, and walk away "converted."
The Value of Mud Chris 2005
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And since that day he had been thankful for the amorphous scrappy scattering of foundationless shacks and bungalows.
Kangaroo 2004
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