2. dreadful, terrible, dire, grim, dark, black, baleful; accursed, cursed, damnable, damned; demonic, demoniac, diabolic, devilish, satanic, fiendish, hellish; execrable, abominable, horrible, horrid, gruesome, monstrous, atrocious.
3. offensive, unpleasant, objectionable, disagreeable; repulsive, repellent, revolting, repugnant.
4. cowardly, niddering, pusillanimous, dastardly, craven, recreant; chicken-hearted, milk-livered, lily-livered, yellow; faint-hearted, nervous, diffident, tremulous; timorous, timid, apprehensive, fearful,
Inf. funky.
5. menial, lowly, servile, slavish, subservient; groveling, sniveling, cowering, cringing; obsequious, sycophantic, parasitical.
6. paltry, trivial, trifling, petty, slight, little, feeble; insignificant, inconsiderable, inappreciable, nugatory, worthless, trumpery; meager, scanty, measly, piddling, niggling, scrimpy, skimpy; niggardly, miserly, cheap, catchpenny.
7. counterfeit, fake, fraudulent, pseudo, pinchbeck; bogus, forged, bad, Inf. phony, flash, sham; spurious, suppositious, unauthentic, ungenuine, false, imitation; adulterated, alloyed, artificial, debased.
8. illegitimate, bastard, bastardly, baseborn; misbegotten, adulterine, natural, unfathered, spurious.
9. obscene, coarse, rude, vulgar, crude, gross, rough; profane, maledictory, blasphemous; smutty, foulmouthed, scatalogical, filthy, dirty, pornographic, Fescinnine; bawdy, ribald, off-color, suggestive, unseemly, indelicate, indecorous, improper, indecent.
10. poor, wretched, sorry, abject, squalid, destitute; miserable, dismal, abysmal, dreary, Literary, drear; beggarly, shabby, scrubby, seedy, sleazy, abased. baseborn, adj. 1. lowborn, lowbred, vulgar, common; low, lowly, simple, humble, homely, homespun; plebian, proletarian, bourgeois; untitled, ungenteel, ungentle, unlanded; beggarly, poor, pauperish.
2. illegitimate, bastard, bastardly, base; misbegotten, adulterine, natural, unfathered, spurious.
3. contemptible, mean-spirited, currish. See - base2 (def. 1).
baseless, adj. 1. groundless, ungrounded, unfounded, unsubstantial, unsubstantiated, uncorroborated; unsound, erroneous, illogical, unreasonable, unreal, unjustifiable.
2. foundationless, bottomless; unsupported, freestanding.
basement, n. cellar, cellarage, wine cellar, storage room, Naut. hold.
baseness, n. 1. vileness, meanness, lowness, viciousness, badness; sordidness, ignobility, foulness, sinisterness, darkness, black-heartedness; balefulness, dreadfulness, direness, direfulness, grimness; malice, maleficence, invidiousness; wickedness, iniquity, nefariousness, flagitiousness, heinousness; sinfulness, ungodliness, profanity, blasphemy; abomination, outrage, enormity, flagrancy, atrocity; damnableness, fiendishness, hellishness, devilishness; criminality, feloniousness, lawlessness; perfidy, treachery, recreancy, traitorousness, disloyalty, treason; villainy, knavery, roguery, miscreancy, rascality.
2. depravity, turpitude, degradation, depravation, debauchery; profligacy, reprobacy, reprobateness, degeneracy, dissipation; dissolution, immorality, obliquity, unchastity; wantonness, salaciousness, salacity, prurience; carnality, bestiality, perversity.
3. offensiveness, objectionableness, obnoxiousness, disagreeableness; repulsiveness, repugnance, repel-lence, distastefulness; loathsomeness, odiousness, odium, hatefulness, despicability, despicableness, detestability; contemptibility, insufferableness, scurviness; opprobrium, ignominy, disgrace, obloquy; infamy, notoriety, disrepute, disreputableness; shamefulness, contemptuousness, discreditability.
