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reasonless

[ ree-zuhn-lis ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

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

Therefore, some reasonable scheme appears more likely than a reasonless one.

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

Not a building was still whole; what had not been torn down in pointless rage had been razed by reasonless arson.

Each of us is conscious at times of sudden revolts against virtue, sudden reasonless impulses for evil.

If at the moment it was the effect of a quite reasonless panic, he decided later that it was because he wished to think.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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