Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having no foundation.
Wiktionary
- adj. Without foundation; unfounded.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having no foundation.
Etymologies
- foundation + -less (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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. ”
“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.”
“Because they are foundationless, they can transform.”
“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.”
“And since that day he had been thankful for the amorphous scrappy scattering of foundationless shacks and bungalows.”
“The Marxism, the anti-Americanism, the anti-property/anti-electricity stances (I'm not making that up -- my environmental science lab prof, who was crazy, was building a house which doesn't use electricy and liked to talk about how bad "power" is), the foundationless rants that seem to come from outer space expose them as the useful idiots of the extreme far left.”
“The proponents of these claims are aware that theirs are empty foundationless noises," Cosatu said.”
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