Meanings
comparative more unreasoning · superlative most unreasoning
- Lacking or without reason.
When we consider the enormous amount of suffering and disease, both of mind and body, arising from the sex-suppression of which I have just spoken, especially among women, we see that mere unreasoning taboos - which possibly had their place and use in the past - can be tolerated no longer.
1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 196
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivenot based on reason or evidence
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishreasoning
- Englishunreasoning
Translations
Polish bezrozumny
- bezrozumnyTranslations
Cite this entry
unreasoning. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreasoning
“unreasoning.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreasoning. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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