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unreasonable

adjectivecommon in dialogue

  • //ʌnˈɹiːz.(ə)nə.bl̩//

Without the ability to reason; unreasoning.

adjective

  1. 1

    Without the ability to reason; unreasoning.

    Hold thy desperate hand: Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art: Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote The unreasonable fury of a beast: Unseemly woman in a seeming man!

  2. 2

    Not reasonable; going beyond what could be expected or asked for.

    For it seemeth to me vnreasonable, to send a prisoner, and not withall to signifie the crimes laid against him.

    The will of those who never allow their will to be disputed, unless they happen to be in a good humour, when they relax proportionally, is almost always unreasonable.

    The groups claimed the administration’s planned operations targeted the city for its sanctuary status and amount to a violation of their First Amendment right to free speech and Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure, according to the court filing .

Etymology

From Middle English unresonable, equivalent to un- + reasonable, originally partly after Latin irratiōnābilis.

Forms

comparative
more unreasonable
superlative
most unreasonable
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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