Define the word unreasonable"Unreasonable" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Unreasonable \Unreasonable\
See reasonable.
"Unreasonable" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Unreasonable \Un*rea"son*a*ble\, a.
Not reasonable; irrational; immoderate; exorbitant. --
Un*rea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*rea"son*a*bly, adv.
[1913 Webster]
"unreasonable" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
unreasonable
adj 1: not reasonable; not showing good judgment [ant: reasonable]
2: pungent adjectives of disesteem; "gave me a cockamamie
reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea";
"some wacky plan for selling more books" [syn: cockamamie,
cockamamy, goofy, sappy, silly, wacky, whacky,
zany]
3: absurd and inappropriate; "the unreasonable nimbus of
romance with which she had encircled that man"- Thomas
Hardy
4: beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of
inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue
elegance"; "unreasonable demands" [syn: excessive, inordinate,
undue]
5: inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the
absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is
highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman
[syn: absurd]
"unreasonable" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
200 Moby Thesaurus words for "unreasonable":
a bit much, abandoned, absonant, absurd, arbitrary, bigoted, blind,
boundless, brainless, capricious, contradictory,
contrary to reason, cranky, crazy, crotchety, cutthroat, egregious,
enormous, exacting, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant,
extortionate, extravagant, extreme, extremist, fabulous,
fallacious, fanatic, fanciful, fancy, fantasied, fantastic,
fatuous, faulty, flaky, flawed, foolish, freakish, gigantic,
gluttonous, gouging, grossly overpriced, haggard, harebrained,
high, humorsome, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, idiotic, ill-advised,
ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged,
illogical, imbecilic, immoderate, impolitic, impractical, improper,
imprudent, inadvisable, inappropriate, inapt, inauthentic,
inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsequential,
inconsiderate, inconsistent, incontinent, indefensible, indiscreet,
inequitable, inexcusable, inexpedient, inexpiable, inflationary,
injudicious, inordinate, insane, insensate, intemperate, invalid,
irrational, irremissible, kinky, laughable, loose, ludicrous, mad,
maggoty, mindless, misadvised, misguided, monstrous, moody,
moronic, motiveless, myopic, nonrational, nonscientific,
nonsensical, not following, notional, out of bounds, out of sight,
outrageous, overbig, overdeveloped, overenthusiastic, overgreat,
overgrown, overlarge, overmuch, overpriced, overreligious,
overweening, overzealous, paralogical, peremptory, perfervid,
petulant, preposterous, prohibitive, quirky, rabid, reasonless,
reckless, ridiculous, self-annulling, self-contradictory,
self-refuting, senseless, short-sighted, shortsighted, silly,
skyrocketing, sophistic, spiraling, steep, stiff, stupid,
temperamental, thoughtless, too much, ultrazealous, unadvised,
unallowable, unapt, unauthentic, unbefitting, unbridled,
uncalled-for, unconnected, unconscionable, unconsidered,
undiscerning, undue, unequal, unfair, unforeseeing, unforgivable,
unjust, unjustifiable, unjustified, unlawful, unpardonable,
unperceiving, unperceptive, unphilosophical, unrealistic,
unreflecting, unreflective, unrestrained, unscientific, unseeing,
unsensible, unsound, unsuitable, unthinking, unthoughtful,
unwarrantable, unwarranted, unwise, usurious, vagarious, vagrant,
wanton, wayward, whimsical, wild-eyed, wild-looking,
without reason, witless, wrongful, zealotic
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