illogical

English

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-bor.

Middle English in-

English il-

English logical

English illogical

From il- + logical.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

illogical (comparative more illogical, superlative most illogical)

1. Contrary to logic; lacking sense or sound reasoning.

   Synonyms: absurd, irrational, unreasoning, unsound

   Antonym: logical

   I received an illogical reply and that left me standing there feeling confused.

   • 1967 November 10, “Metamorphosis”, in Star Trek, season 2, episode 9, spoken by Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy):

     Your highly emotional reaction is most illogical.

   • 1979, “The Logical Song”, in Roger Hodgson (lyrics), Breakfast in America, performed by Supertramp:

     'Cause I was feeling so illogical, d-d-d-igital

Derived terms

• illogicality
• illogically
• illogicalness

Translations

contrary to logic; lacking sense or sound reasoning

• Armenian: անտրամաբանական (hy) (antramabanakan)
• Azerbaijani: məntiqsiz
• Catalan: il·lògic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不合邏輯 / 不合逻辑 (bùhé luójí), 悖理 (bèilǐ), 荒謬 / 荒谬 (zh) (huāngmiù), 乖戾 (zh) (guāilì)

• Czech: nelogický (cs)
• Dutch: onlogisch (nl)
• Esperanto: nelogika
• Finnish: epälooginen (fi)
• French: illogique (fr)
• Galician: ilóxico
• German: unlogisch
• Greek: άλογος (el) (álogos)

  Ancient Greek: ἄλογος (álogos)

• Hebrew: חסר היגיון m (khasár higayón)
• Hungarian: észszerűtlen (hu), logikátlan (hu)
• Italian: illogico (it)
• Japanese: 支離滅裂な (ja) (shirimetsuretsu na), 非論理的な (hi ronriteki na)
• Kazakh: логикасыз (logikasyz)
• Korean: 동우각마 (dong'ugangma)
• Lithuanian: nelogiškas
• Manx: meeresoonagh, neuresoonagh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ulogisk

• Plautdietsch: onveninftich
• Polish: nielogiczny (pl)
• Portuguese: ilógico (pt), antilógico
• Romanian: ilogic (ro), nelogic
• Russian: нелоги́чный (ru) (nelogíčnyj)
• Spanish: ilógico (es)
• Swedish: ologisk (sv)
• Thai: ไร้เหตุผล (Rị̂ h̄etup̄hl)
• Turkish: mantıksız (tr)
• Ukrainian: нелогі́чний (nelohíčnyj)
• Vietnamese: phi lôgic

See also

• illogic