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reasonless

rea·son·less

uncommon

adjective

1.

not marked by the use of reason

  • “mindless violence”
  • “reasonless hostility”
  • “a senseless act”
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2.

not endowed with the capacity to reason

  • “a reasonless brute”
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3.

having no justifying cause or reason

  • “a senseless, causeless murder”
  • “a causeless war that never had an aim”
  • “an apparently arbitrary and reasonless change”
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Origin

From Middle English resonles, equivalent to reason + -less. Piecewise doublet of ratioless and rationless.

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