unreasonable
/ʌnˈɹiːz.(ə)nə.bl̩/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Without the ability to reason; unreasoning.
adj
Not reasonable; going beyond what could be expected or asked for.
Example Sentences
- "Hold thy desperate hand: Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art: Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote The unreasonable fury of a beast: Unseemly woman in a seeming man!"
- "For it seemeth to me vnreasonable, to send a prisoner, and not withall to signifie the crimes laid against him."
- "The will of those who never allow their will to be disputed, unless they happen to be in a good humour, when they relax proportionally, is almost always unreasonable."
- "The groups claimed the administration’s planned operations targeted the city for its sanctuary status and amount to a violation of their First Amendment right to free speech and Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure, according to the court filing ."
Etymology
From Middle English unresonable, equivalent to un- + reasonable, originally partly after Latin irratiōnābilis.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: unresonable, irratiōnābilis
Inflected Forms
more unreasonable (comparative)
most unreasonable (superlative)