Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lacking the faculty of reason; irrational, as an animal.
- Deficient in reason or judgment; lacking in good sense; unreasoning.
- Not marked or justified by reason; senseless; causeless; unwarranted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Destitute of reason.
- adjective Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective lacking
reason orpurpose
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not endowed with the capacity to reason
- adjective not marked by the use of reason
- adjective having no justifying cause or reason
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Examples
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He felt toward them a kind of reasonless antipathy that was something more than the physical and spiritual repugnance common to us all.
Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909
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He felt toward them a kind of reasonless antipathy that was something more than the physical and spiritual repugnance common to us all.
Can Such Things Be 1893
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He felt toward them a kind of reasonless antipathy that was something more than the physical and spiritual repugnance common to us all.
Can Such Things Be? Ambrose Bierce 1878
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My dreams, if dreams they may be called, were rhymeless and reasonless.
Chapter 6 2010
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I am willing to be convinced I am wrong, if I get something more than reasonless statements.
Think Progress » ADL asserts Gen. Petraeus ‘erred’ in his recent congressional testimony. 2010
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As I write this, all the beings and happenings of that other world rise up before me in vast phantasmagoria, and I know that to you they would be rhymeless and reasonless.
CHAPTER I 2010
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But the time was at hand, rhymeless and reasonless so far as I can see, when I was to begin to pay for my score of years of dallying with John Barleycorn.
Chapter 30 2010
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He feels, with reasonless excitement, at the center of a big accomplishment.
GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010
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A reasonless, sourceless case of being Whitaker in a foul mood.
GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010
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He feels, with reasonless excitement, at the center of a big accomplishment.
GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010
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