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UNREASONABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Beyond normal limits
Example:
unreasonable demands
Synonyms:
excessive; inordinate; undue; unreasonable
Classified under:
Similar:
immoderate (beyond reasonable limits)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not reasonable; not showing good judgment
Classified under:
Similar:
counterintuitive (contrary to what common sense would suggest)
indefensible; untenable ((of theories etc) incapable of being defended or justified)
mindless; reasonless; senseless (not marked by the use of reason)
undue; unjustified; unwarranted (lacking justification or authorization)
Also:
illogical; unlogical (lacking in correct logical relation)
immoderate (beyond reasonable limits)
irrational (not consistent with or using reason)
Attribute:
reasonableness (goodness of reason and judgment)
Antonym:
reasonable (showing reason or sound judgment)
Context examples:
Be it known then, that Sir Walter, like a good father, (having met with one or two private disappointments in very unreasonable applications), prided himself on remaining single for his dear daughters' sake.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
If it be so, if I have been misled by such error to inflict pain on her, your resentment has not been unreasonable.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
That the system of living contrived by me, was unreasonable and unjust; because it supposed a perpetuity of youth, health, and vigour, which no man could be so foolish to hope, however extravagant he may be in his wishes.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
John Thorpe, in the meanwhile, had walked away; and Catherine, ever willing to give Mr. Tilney an opportunity of repeating the agreeable request which had already flattered her once, made her way to Mrs. Allen and Mrs. Thorpe as fast as she could, in the hope of finding him still with them—a hope which, when it proved to be fruitless, she felt to have been highly unreasonable.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I took hold of his clenched hand, loosened the contorted fingers, and said to him, soothingly—Sit down; I'll talk to you as long as you like, and hear all you have to say, whether reasonable or unreasonable.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
You won't think what I am going to say, unreasonable, after what you told me, such a little while ago, of Mr. Wickfield's not being well?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
No, no, said she, you are quite unreasonable.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Edmund did not discern any symptoms of regret, and thought his father a little unreasonable in supposing the first three or four days could produce any.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I am not to be intimidated into anything so wholly unreasonable.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
In music she thought him unreasonable, and in the matter of opera not only unreasonable but wilfully perverse.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
