Unreasoning

Word UNREASONING
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Definitions and meanings of "Unreasoning"

What do we mean by unreasoning?

Not governed or moderated by reason. adjective

Not reasoning; not having reasoning faculties; characterized by want of reason.

Behaving without reason. adjective

Not based on reason or evidence adjective

Behaving without reason.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Unreasoning

The word "unreasoning" in example sentences

Living wild and free together in unreasoning delight. ❋ Unknown (1898)

Such were men before the coming of Christ, unclean with divers passions; unreasoning, that is, lacking the reason of the Word; stupid, in their disregard of God; weak in soul; ignoble, because forgetting their heavenly birth they became slaves of their passions, and of the demons; drudges, because they toiled under the load of error laid upon them by the daemons, or the Pharisees. ❋ 1225?-1274 (1842)

Assuming that Hamas -- or Hezbollah -- is "unreasoning" is a mistake that can prove quite costly indeed, as Israel is learning in southern Lebanon (and America learned with those fanatical terrorists in the Iraqi insurgency as well). ❋ Unknown (2008)

In our passage through life we meet scarcely any who do not persist, with a kind of unreasoning obstinacy, in throning the material within them, and there maintaining it supreme. ❋ Maurice Maeterlinck (1905)

Mrs. Lidcote, as the huge menacing mass of New York defined itself far off across the waters, shrank back into her corner of the deck and sat listening with a kind of unreasoning terror to the steady onward drive of the screws. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)

Maybe it's evidence of a kind of unreasoning phobia of religion in British public life, but then that seems hard to reconcile with the fact that, apart from politicians, everyone goes on about it all the time. ❋ Stephen Tomkins (2010)

"The essence of sin is selfishness; that is, the unreasoning, improper love of self. ❋ Unknown (1881)

Isn't it just an aesthetic desire for conformity and an intellectual, but unreasoning estrangement from an American way of doing things. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Treating a compassionate individual like an unreasoning totalitarian monster is a counterproductive strategy. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

Perhaps ironically, the most important advice to the tea-party movement and GOP candidates on how to handle this situation comes from Franklin Roosevelt: "This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly . . . let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." ❋ Unknown (2011)

Speaking of unreasoning mentalities, LIARS dontchaknow read the same AG report today and said that it says: "no charges would be brought at this time." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Romance is waste, love is unreasoning; compatibility alone is worth while. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Increasingly, secular democracies are left supine before the unreasoning zeal of old time religion. ❋ Sam Harris (2010)

The unreasoning fear of terrorism and criminals not to mention your insane fear of paying your fair share shows a childish view of the world and an inability to reason. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. ❋ Jill Bialosky (2011)

He acknowledged the wash-tub incident, caused, he explained, by an act of simple courtesy on his part and by John Borg's unreasoning anger. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Beginning in January, an unreasoning pessimism about the Arab world's capacity for change abruptly gave way to an unreasoning euphoria. ❋ Bret Stephens (2011)

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