(a.) Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion.
Example Sentences:
(1) China's foreign ministry has dismissed speculation that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden might have spied for Beijing as "completely groundless".
(2) At psychiatric consultation it became apparent that each man had a mental disorder, one symptom of which was an excessive and groundless concern that he suffered from AIDS.
(3) However, his claim about the absence of the effect of stabilization of Z-DNA at low salt proves to be groundless, and the criticism of our earlier approach seems to be irrelevant.
(4) Serial interviews with 39 patients undergoing radical radiotherapy to the oral cavity revealed that misunderstandings and groundless fears about this form of treatment were widespread.
(5) The patients' reports about their experience of anxiety show that concrete and groundless anxiety are felt as equally unpleasant.
(6) In an interview last week with the Jerusalem Post, the Israeli prime minister rejected accusations of interference in the election, saying they were "completely groundless".
(7) "In particular, do not destroy the goodwill and anticipation the public has for the new office holders after the 18th party congress by limiting and persecuting an ordinary citizen's normal freedom of speech in such a groundless fashion."
(8) KCNA quoted the foreign ministry as saying: “As the United States is spreading groundless allegations and slandering us, we propose a joint investigation with it into this incident.
(9) As the United States is spreading groundless allegations and slandering us, we propose a joint investigation with it into this incident,” a foreign ministry spokesman said.
(10) The report made wild guesses, and was groundless and with ulterior motives,” the spokesperson said, adding that China’s stance was “clear”.
(11) Chen said the authorities' threat of prosecution against his wife was groundless and the harassment was part of continued efforts by local authorities to punish Chen Guangcheng for his continued activism overseas by targeting his relatives.
(12) The French finance minister Pierre Moscovici called the report an "absurd and groundless" exercise in "French bashing" while prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault accused the Economist of sensationalism.
(13) This fight may have sharpened the opposition, but it expanded the range of support for transgender equality.” 'Bathroom predator' spin on Houston equal rights bill puts Texans in hot seat Read more The pro-Hero campaign relied on logic and reasonableness, which as a strategy turned out to be no match for a stark yet spurious slogan from opponents: “No men in women’s bathrooms.” This line, peddled endlessly and rooted in groundless suspicion of transgender people, sought to scare voters into believing that because of the reference to gender identity, a broad civil rights bill was in essence a license for sexual predators to attack women in bathrooms.
(14) The author states that the insurers' fears are groundless but suggests that psychiatrists research the utilization and costs of their treatments in insurance plans collaboratively with the actuaries who determine policy and premiums.
(15) To enhance the effectiveness of the immunoprophylaxis of measles and its influence on the epidemic process, a number of problems must be solved with the aim to improve the quality of the vaccine, especially its thermal stability, to establish the possibility of shifting the beginning of immunization from 15-17 months to 12 months of age, to increase the coverage of children with immunization against measles by decreasing the number of groundless exemptions from immunization and by immunizing children in risk groups according to individual schedules and dosage, to carry out selectively the booster immunization of persons who have lost their postvaccinal immunity, as revealed by laboratory test, or in whom such loss may be supposed, to introduce the objective method (indirect hemagglutination test) for controlling the state of immunity among different groups of the population into laboratory practice at sanitary and epidemiological stations.
(16) There is no harm in exploring the truth about racism when all moral, scientific, social, historical and genetic evidence demonstrates it to be groundless and ridiculous.
(17) Protecting humans from the real hazards and allaying groundless fears requires a self-consistent body of scientific data concerning effects of the fields, levels of exposures which cause those effects, and which effects are deleterious (or beneficial or neutral).
(18) "It is regrettable that the Venezuelan government has again decided to expel US diplomatic officials based on groundless allegations, which require reciprocal action.
(19) The state KCNA news agency added that claims North Korea had conducted the attack on Sony in revenge for the controversial comedy The Interview , a multimillion-dollar comedy starring James Franco and Seth Rogen that depicts the assassination of Kim Jong-un, were “groundless slander”.
(20) A thorough and well-organized medical chart can prevent malpractice from occurring, discourages the filing of groundless lawsuits, and is a useful tool in defending a physician in a medical malpractice action.
Wild
Definition:
(superl.) Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat.
(superl.) Growing or produced without culture; growing or prepared without the aid and care of man; native; not cultivated; brought forth by unassisted nature or by animals not domesticated; as, wild parsnip, wild camomile, wild strawberry, wild honey.
(superl.) Desert; not inhabited or cultivated; as, wild land.
(superl.) Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; ferocious; rude; as, wild natives of Africa or America.
(superl.) Not submitted to restraint, training, or regulation; turbulent; tempestuous; violent; ungoverned; licentious; inordinate; disorderly; irregular; fanciful; imaginary; visionary; crazy.
(superl.) Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered; as, a wild roadstead.
(superl.) Indicating strong emotion, intense excitement, or /ewilderment; as, a wild look.
(superl.) Hard to steer; -- said of a vessel.
(n.) An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or desert; a wilderness; a waste; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa.
(adv.) Wildly; as, to talk wild.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
(2) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
(3) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
(4) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(5) RNAs encoding a wild-type (RBK1) and a mutant (RBK1(Y379V,V381T); RBK1*) subunit of voltage-dependent potassium channels were injected into Xenopus oocytes.
(6) One rat strain (TAS) is susceptible to the anticoagulant and lethal effects of warfarin and the other two strains are homozygous for warfarin resistance genes from either wild Welsh (HW) or Scottish (HS) rats.
(7) No reversions to wild-type levels were observed in 555 heterozygous offspring of crosses between homozygous Campines and normals.
(8) The kinetics of endocytosis and recycling of the wild-type and mutant receptors were compared.
(9) Genetic regulation of the ilvGMEDA cluster involves attenuation, internal promoters, internal Rho-dependent termination sites, a site of polarity in the ilvG pseudogene of the wild-type organism, and autoregulation by the ilvA gene product, the biosynthetic L-threonine deaminase.
(10) In contrast, strains carrying the substitutions Ile-30----Phe, Gly-33----Leu, Gly-58----Leu, and Lys-34----Val and the Lys-34----Val, Glu-37----Gln double substitution were found to possess a coupled phenotype similar to that of the wild type.
(11) With one exception, the mutant control regions showed elevated beta-lactamase activity in comparison to the wild-type.
(12) Intercistronic complementation of these mutants with pm1493 and dl121, two SV40 mutants that are defective in agnoprotein but encode wild-type T antigen, results in an increased synthesis of agnoprotein in the infected cells.
(13) For example, stem pairing with a sequence other than wild-type resulted in normal protein binding in vitro but derepression of protein synthesis in vivo.
(14) Phage lysates of wild-type cells are capable of transducing auxotrophs of strain 78 to prototrophy at frequencies ranging from 0.3 x 10(-7) to 34 x 10(-7) per plaque-forming unit adsorbed.
(15) The mutant spores are pleomorphic and differ both in shape and size from the wild-type spores.
(16) Addition of streptomycin restores much of the wild-type behaviour.
(17) She read geography at Oxford, where Benazir Bhutto (a future prime minister of Pakistan, assassinated in 2007) introduced May to her future husband, Philip May: "I hate to say this, but it was at an Oxford University Conservative Association disco… this is wild stuff.
(18) A plasmid carrying this mutation, along with wild-type genes encoding the c and b subunits, was unusual in that it failed to complement a chromosomal c-subunit mutation on succinate minimal medium.
(19) Using allozymes as the genetic probe, data are presented which show that wild Drosophila buzzatii females and males engaged in copulation mate at random.
(20) Intact wild-type cells, or those of a mutant in which the core region of the lipopolysaccharide was absent, were equally resistant to pronase treatment.