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ill-grounded

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.79 in modern English

Syllables
il-l--ground-ed
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of a person, lacking knowledge of a subject.

adj

Of an argument, position, etc.: based on poor judgment and weak reasoning or evidence.

Inflected Forms

more ill-grounded (comparative) most ill-grounded (superlative)

Synonyms

ill-informed ill-founded groundless baseless flimsy unjustified

Antonyms

well-informed well-grounded well-founded on solid ground

Questions

What does ill-grounded mean?
Of a person, lacking knowledge of a subject.

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