unreasonable

English

Etymology

un- +‎ reason +‎ -able

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈɹiːz(ə)nəbl̩/

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• Hyphenation: un‧rea‧son‧able

Adjective

unreasonable (comparative more unreasonable, superlative most unreasonable)

1. Without the ability to reason; unreasoning.
   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene 3,^[1]

     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!

2. Not reasonable; going beyond what could be expected or asked for.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Acts 25:27,^[2]

     For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.

   • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Chapter 11,^[3]

     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.

Antonyms

• reasonable

Derived terms

• unreasonableness
• unreasonably

Translations

not reasonable

• Danish: urimelig
• Finnish: kohtuuton (fi)
• French: déraisonnable (fr)
• German: unvernünftig (de), kompromisslos (de), nicht nachvollziehbar, unklug, übertrieben (de), unmäßig
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἄλογος (álogos)

• Italian: irragionevole (it)
• Polish: nierozsądny (pl)
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• Portuguese: insensato (pt)
• Romanian: nerezonabil m
• Russian: неразу́мный (ru) (nerazúmnyj)
• Spanish: irrazonable (es)
• Swedish: orimlig (sv)
• Telugu: నిష్కారణము (te) (niṣkāraṇamu)
• Welsh: afresymol (cy)