unreasonable
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English unresonable; equivalent to un- + reason + -able.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ʌnˈɹiːz(ə)nəbl̩/
unreasonable
- Without the ability to reason; unreasoning.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene iii]:
- 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!
- Not reasonable; going beyond what could be expected or asked for.
- Antonyms: reasonable
- 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, “Duty to Parents”, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC ↗, page 358 ↗:
- 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.
- French: déraisonnable
- German: unvernünftig, kompromisslos, nicht nachvollziehbar, unklug, übertrieben, unmäßig
- Italian: irragionevole
- Portuguese: insensato, (MAT) irracional
- Russian: неразу́мный
- Spanish: irrazonable
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