unreasoning

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adjective

Lacking or without reason.

UncommonScrabble 12

Meanings

adjectiveunreasoning (comparative more unreasoning, superlative most unreasoning)

comparative more unreasoning · superlative most unreasoning

  1. 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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishreasoning
  9. Englishunreasoning

From un- + reasoning.

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Translations

Polish bezrozumny
  • bezrozumnyTranslations
Cite this entry
APA

unreasoning. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreasoning

MLA

“unreasoning.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreasoning. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unreasoning,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreasoning.

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