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безосновательный

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Russian

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Etymology

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From без- (bez-) +‎ основа́ние (osnovánije) +‎ -тельный (-telʹnyj), a calque of German grundlos. First attested in 1842.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [bʲɪzəsnɐˈvatʲɪlʲnɨj]

Adjective

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безоснова́тельный (bezosnovátelʹnyj)

  1. baseless, groundless (not grounded in facts, not based on anything true)

Declension

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References

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  • Arapova, N. S. (2000) “безосновательный”, in Kalʹki v russkom jazyke poslepetrovskovo perioda. Opyt slovarja [Calques in Post-Petrine Russian. An Essay of a Dictionary] (in Russian), Moscow: Moscow University Press, page 51