UNREASONING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unreasoning mean? 

• UNREASONING (adjective)
  The adjective UNREASONING has 1 sense:

1. not based on reason or evidence

  Familiarity information: UNREASONING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNREASONING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not based on reason or evidence

Synonyms:

blind; unreasoning

Context example:

unreasoning panic

Similar:

irrational (not consistent with or using reason)

 Context examples 

A mad, unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I answer that there was a great deal which was unreasoning and fanatical in the hatred which he bore my heir.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy he was consumed with wonder at her presence.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)