adj
Meaning 1
Lacking reason or purpose.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
reasonless
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adjective satellite
Meaning 2
having no justifying cause or reason
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a senseless, causeless murder
- a causeless war that never had an aim
- an apparently arbitrary and reasonless change
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: causeless
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
not endowed with the capacity to reason
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a reasonless brute
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
not marked by the use of reason
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- mindless violence
- reasonless hostility
- a senseless act
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: mindless, senseless
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English resonles, equivalent to reason + -less. Piecewise doublet of ratioless and rationless.
Across languages
Translations
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Polish: bezprzyczynowy — Translations
- Spanish: sin razón — Translations
- Turkish: sebepsiz — Translations
- Turkish: nedensiz — Translations