"ungrounded" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more ungrounded [comparative], most ungrounded [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English ungroundid, ungronded, ungrundid, ungrounded; equivalent to un- + grounded. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|ungroundid}} Middle English ungroundid, {{m|enm|ungronded}} ungronded, {{m|enm|ungrundid}} ungrundid, {{m|enm|ungrounded}} ungrounded, {{prefix|en|un|grounded}} un- + grounded Head templates: {{en-adj}} ungrounded (comparative more ungrounded, superlative most ungrounded)
  1. Not grounded; without ground or basis, unreal, false. Synonyms: baseless
    Sense id: en-ungrounded-en-adj-JXmwbp~C Categories (other): English terms prefixed with un- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with un-: 34 32 34
  2. (electricity, electronics) Not connected to ground potential Categories (topical): Electricity, Electronics Translations (not connected to ground potential): незаземен (nezazemen) (Bulgarian), maadoittamaton (Finnish), ungeerdet (German), nicht geerdet (German), földeletlen (Hungarian), ojordad (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-ungrounded-en-adj-EA2wLIjM Categories (other): English terms prefixed with un- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with un-: 34 32 34 Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics Disambiguation of 'not connected to ground potential': 23 77
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (not grounded, unreal, false): неоснователен (neosnovatelen) (Bulgarian), неоправдан (neopravdan) (Bulgarian), perusteeton (Finnish), perätön (Finnish), aus der Luft gegriffen (German), alaptalan (Hungarian), megalapozatlan (Hungarian), légből kapott (Hungarian), grundlös (Swedish), ogrundad (Swedish)
Etymology number: 2 Disambiguation of 'not grounded, unreal, false': 55 45

Verb [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} ungrounded
  1. simple past and past participle of unground Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: unground
    Sense id: en-ungrounded-en-verb-DkiC~-rV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with un- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 26 32 42 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with un-: 34 32 34
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Download JSON data for ungrounded meaning in All languages combined (5.5kB)

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