Illogical

Definitions: Illogical

Illogical

Adjective

1. Lacking in correct logical relation.

2. Lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts".

Date "illogical" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)

Synonyms: Illogical

Synonyms: confused (adj), disconnected (adj), disjointed (adj), disordered (adj), garbled (adj), scattered (adj), unconnected (adj), unlogical (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: logical (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Error	Adjective: erroneous, untrue, false, devoid of truth, fallacious, apocryphal, unreal, ungrounded, groundless; unsubstantial; heretical; (heterodox); unsound; illogical.
Reasoning,	Unreasonable, illogical, false, unsound, invalid; unwarranted, not following; inconsequent, inconsequential; inconsistent; absonous, absonant; unscientific; untenable, inconclusive, incorrect; fallacious, fallible; groundless, unproved; non sequitur.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Illogical

English words defined with "illogical": Circulary ♦ illogically ♦ Paralogical ♦ theater of the absurd, thing ♦ unmodifiable. (references)

Specialty definitions using "illogical": Psychotherapy, Rational-Emotive. (references)

Etymologies containing "illogical": Circulary. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	That's what's so illogical, you know, about being a Smurf. (Donnie Darko; writing credit: Richard Kelly) I won it as a door prize at a Star Trek convention, although I find their choice of prize highly illogical, as the average Trekker has no need of a medium-size belt. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Scott, the Joint Chiefs, even the very emotional, very illogical lunatic fringe: they're not the enemy. (Seven Days in May; writing credit: Fletcher Knebel; Charles W. Bailey II) Do women find it feminine to be so illogical, or can't they help it? (Charade; writing credit: Peter Stone; Marc Behm)
Lyrics	Your fear is illogical you seem very wise but that doesn't matter to me ("Ice Machine In The Desert"; performing artist: Brave Combo)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Pretty Ugly: More Oxymorons and Other Illogical Expressions That Make Absolute Sense (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Highly Illogical [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Tangled Tale	Carroll, Lewis	This is illogical.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		When people awaken during REM sleep, they often describe bizarre and illogical tales � dreams. (references)
		They soon realized that the strange, illogical experiences we call dreams almost always occur during REM sleep. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Illogical" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.80% of the time. "Illogical" is used about 227 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	97.8%	222	20,237
Noun (proper)	2.2%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	227	N/A

Language		Translations for "illogical"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i palogjikshëm (illegitimate). (various references)

Arabic		‏مخالف للمنطق, ‏غير منطقي (illegitimate, inconsequent, inconsequential, irrational, mad). (various references)

Bulgarian		нелогичен (illegitimate, inconsecutive, irrational). (various references)

Chinese		不合逻辑 (illogicality). (various references)

Czech		nelogický (illegitimacy, illegitimate, inconsequential, irrational). (various references)

Danish		uhensigtsmæssig adfærd hos oligofrene (defective action, illogical action). (various references)

Dutch		onlogisch. (various references)

Finnish		epälooginen. (various references)

French		illogique (illegitimate). (various references)

German		unlogisch (illogically, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsequentially). (various references)

Greek		παράλογοσ (absonant, absurd, irrational, preposterous, reasonless, senseless, unconscionable, unreasonable). (various references)

Hebrew		לא �"�'יו� י. (various references)

Hungarian		logikátlan (inconsequent, inconsequential), illogikus. (various references)

Indonesian		tidak dapat diterima akal. (various references)

Italian		illogico (inconsequent). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"�離滅裂 (incoherent, inconsistent). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		すじちがい (cramp, intersection, sprain), すじちかい (cramp, intersection, sprain), しりめつれつ (incoherent, inconsistent), ひ�"うりてき, ひり (unreasonable), ひろ�"りてき, ふてってい (half-way, inconsistent, indefinite, not thorough, unconvincing). (various references)

Korean		비논리 (inconsequent). (various references)

Manx		neuresoonagh (irrational), meeresoonagh (incoherent, preposterous, senseless). (various references)

Pig Latin		illogicalay.(various references)

Portuguese		ilógico (inconclusive, inconsequence, inconsequent, inconsistent, irrational, preposterous), mazela. (various references)

Romanian		ilogic (absurd, preposterous), nerezonabil (unreasonable), nelogic (illegitimate, illogically, mad). (various references)

Russian		нелогичный (illegitimate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nelogičan. (various references)

Spanish		ilógico (absurd, loose). (various references)

Swedish		ologisk (illegitimate, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsistent). (various references)

Turkish		mantıksız (absurd, illegitimate, implausible, impractical, inadvisable, inconsequent, inconsequential, injudicious, insensate, irrational, opaque, preposterous, senseless, unconscientious, unconscionable, unreasonable, unreasoning, wacky), mantığa aykırı. (various references)

Ukranian		нелогічний (illegitimate, irrational, non-logical). (various references)

Vietnamese		phi lý (amphigouric, preposterous, reasonless), không lôgíc. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "illogical": illogicalities, illogicality, illogically, illogicalness, illogicalnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Illogical" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nilotica. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "illogical" (pronounced i'lÄ"jikul)
7	-l Ä" j i k u l	archaeological, archeological, astrological, biological, biotechnological, chronological, dermatological, ecological, epidemiological, eschatological, geological, gynecological, ideological, immunological, logical, methodological, morphological, mythological, neurological, ontological, pathological, pharmacological, phonological, physiological, psychological, radiological, sociological, technological, theological, toxicological, virological, zoological.
6	-Ä" j i k u l	pedagogical.
5	-j i k u l	liturgical, magical, metallurgical, nonsurgical, ornithological, serological, strategical, surgical, teleological.
4	-i k u l	acoustical, alphabetical, analytical, antithetical, apolitical, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, bicycle, biographical, biomedical, botanical, categorical, cervical, classical, comical, conical, critical, cubicle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, diabolical, dialectical, ecclesiastical, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encyclical, ethical, ethnical, evangelical, fanatical, galenical, geographical, geometrical, geopolitical, graphical, helical, heretical, historical, hypercritical, hypocritical, hysterical, icicle, identical, inimical, ironical, lackadaisical, lexical, logistical, lyrical, mathematical, mechanical, metaphorical, metaphysical, metrical, musical, mystical, neoclassical, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nontechnical, optical, paradoxical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, philosophical, physical, popsicle, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, puritanical, rabbinical, rhetorical, sabbatical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, spherical, statistical, stereotypical, symmetrical, tactical, technical, testicle, theatrical, theoretical, topical, tricycle, tropical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncritical, uneconomical, unethical, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, whimsical.
3	-k u l	aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, article, barnacle, biblical, bifocal, biochemical, brickle, buckle, cackle, chemical, Chronicle, chuckle, circle, clavicle, clerical, clinical, commonsensical, coracle, cortical, crackle, cuticle, cycle, debacle, diacritical, domical, ducal, encircle, epochal, equivocal, etymological, farcical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, geophysical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, hackle, heckle, heterocercal, hierarchical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypothetical, impractical, jackal, knuckle, local, maniacal, matriarchal, medical, meikle, meteorological, methodical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, motorcycle, muckle, mythical, nautical, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, numerical, obstacle, Oracle, oratorical, particle, patriarchal, photochemical, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, practical, pumpernickel, quizzical, radical, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, ruckle, runkle, satirical, shackle, shekel, sickle, skeptical, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, sprinkle, stickle, suckle, tabernacle, tackle, tentacle, tickle, tinkle, trickle, twinkle, typical, uncle, unequivocal, unicycle, unshackle, vocal, Winkle, wrinkle.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-i-l-l-l-o"
	-2 letters: illogic, logical.
	-3 letters: gallic.
	-4 letters: aioli, cilia, glial, iliac, ilial, lilac, local, logia, logic.
	-5 letters: agio, call, calo, ciao, clag, clog, coal, coil, cola, gall, gaol, gill, glia, goal, ilia, laic, lall, loca, loci, loll, olla.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-i-l-l-l-o"
	+2 letters: illogically.
	+3 letters: biologically, collegiality, dialogically, illogicality, limnological, lithological, logistically, philological.
	+4 letters: axiologically, etiologically, glaciological, ideologically, illogicalness, virologically.
	+5 letters: climatological, collegialities, eulogistically, geopolitically, glycosidically, histologically, illogicalities, lichenological, lithologically, philologically, radiologically, semiologically, sociologically, vexillological.
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