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reasonless

[ ree-zuh n-lis ]

/ ˈri zən lɪs /

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adjective

not having any reason or sense: an utterly reasonless display of anger.

not having a natural capacity for reason.

Origin of reasonless

First recorded in 1350–1400, reasonless is from the Middle English word resonles. See reason, -less

OTHER WORDS FROM reasonless

rea·son·less·ly, adverb rea·son·less·ness, noun

Words nearby reasonless

reason, reason, age of, reasonable, reasoned, reasoning, reasonless, reassemble, reassert, reassess, reassessment, reassign

Example sentences from the Web for reasonless

You are not oxen,—yet often you are as patient, as dull, as blind and reasonless as they!

Temporal Power |Marie Corelli
Susan lived in a dazed, wide-eyed state of reasonless excitement and perilous delight.

Saturday's Child |Kathleen Norris
And she was conscious of that swift rising of dislike, of antagonism touched with reasonless fear.

The Fortieth Door |Mary Hastings Bradley
Yet they issued from the same vocal chords, unless Forth was having a reasonless, macabre joke.

The Planet Savers |Marion Zimmer Bradley

At first, no doubt, it was a chaos of streets and people and buildings and reasonless going to and fro.

Tono Bungay |H. G. Wells