"ill-founded" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more ill-founded",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most ill-founded",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ill-founded (comparative more ill-founded, superlative most ill-founded)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "well-founded"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "ill-founded criticism",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1814, Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England: From the Norman Conquest, in 1066 to the Year 1803., page 1155",
          "text": "He said, the part of the sentence which stated that the court “having heard the evidence, and maturely and seriously considered the whole, are of opinion that the charge is malicious and ill-founded: […]”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1946 September and October, “The Four Railway Manias”, in Railway Magazine, page 269",
          "text": "Optimism rose to a third peak in 1846, when the eagerness of investors to take up shares in new companies precipitated a financial panic in which many ill-founded schemes perished.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Unsubstantiated, not based on fact or evidence."
      ],
      "id": "en-ill-founded-en-adj-ppsWTlhH",
      "links": [
        [
          "Unsubstantiated",
          "unsubstantiated"
        ],
        [
          "fact",
          "fact"
        ],
        [
          "evidence",
          "evidence"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "baseless"
        },
        {
          "word": "flimsy"
        },
        {
          "word": "groundless"
        },
        {
          "word": "unjustified"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ill-founded"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more ill-founded",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most ill-founded",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ill-founded (comparative more ill-founded, superlative most ill-founded)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "well-founded"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "ill-founded criticism",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1814, Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England: From the Norman Conquest, in 1066 to the Year 1803., page 1155",
          "text": "He said, the part of the sentence which stated that the court “having heard the evidence, and maturely and seriously considered the whole, are of opinion that the charge is malicious and ill-founded: […]”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1946 September and October, “The Four Railway Manias”, in Railway Magazine, page 269",
          "text": "Optimism rose to a third peak in 1846, when the eagerness of investors to take up shares in new companies precipitated a financial panic in which many ill-founded schemes perished.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Unsubstantiated, not based on fact or evidence."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Unsubstantiated",
          "unsubstantiated"
        ],
        [
          "fact",
          "fact"
        ],
        [
          "evidence",
          "evidence"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "baseless"
        },
        {
          "word": "flimsy"
        },
        {
          "word": "groundless"
        },
        {
          "word": "unjustified"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ill-founded"
}