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Antonyms for unsubstantiated

Grammar : Adj
Spell : uhn-suh b-stan-shee-ey-tid
Phonetic Transcription : ˌʌn səbˈstæn ʃiˌeɪ tɪd

Definition of unsubstantiated

Origin :
  • 1775, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of substantiate (v.).
  • adj questionable, unproven
Example sentences :
  • As yet he could not reveal his unsubstantiated information to another.
  • Extract from : « The Roof Tree » by Charles Neville Buck
  • He conscientiously avoids the vague, the doubtful, the unsubstantiated.
  • Extract from : « Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, May, 1900 » by Various
  • The articles seemed woven of fact, but she could not accept them unsubstantiated.
  • Extract from : « To Him That Hath » by Leroy Scott
  • But he couldn't prove it, and she wasn't likely to accept his unsubstantiated word.
  • Extract from : « Forget Me Nearly » by Floyd L. Wallace
  • Then follows the unsubstantiated story which has done duty for Shakspeare and many other poets.
  • Extract from : « Robert Burns » by Gabriel Setoun
  • There is a tradition, unsubstantiated, that these stalls came from Cockersand abbey in 1543.
  • Extract from : « Wood Carvings in English Churches » by Francis Bond
  • Meanwhile, young ladies and gentlemen, let no wild romances or unsubstantiated rumors shake your minds.
  • Extract from : « The Girls of Central High at Basketball » by Gertrude W. Morrison
  • Criticism and comment on well-known and admitted facts are very different things from the assertion of unsubstantiated facts.
  • Extract from : « A Public Appeal for Redress to the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard University » by Francis Ellingwood Abbot
  • The gigantic, unsubstantiated tower rose incredibly far toward the sky.
  • Extract from : « The Hate Disease » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
  • He failed to winnow the sound historical material from that which was unsubstantiated or improbable.
  • Extract from : « The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 » by Various

Synonyms for unsubstantiated

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