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 or purpose

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • My dreams, if dreams they may be called, were rhymeless and reasonless.

    Chapter 6 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • He feels, with reasonless excitement, at the center of a big accomplishment.

    GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

  • A reasonless, sourceless case of being Whitaker in a foul mood.

    GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

  • 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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