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Definitions: Reasonless |
ReasonlessAdjective1. Not marked by the use of reason; "mindless violence"; "reasonless hostility"; "a senseless act". 2. Not endowed with the capacity to reason; "a reasonless brute". 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "reasonless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1592. (references) |
Synonyms: ReasonlessSynonyms: causeless (adj), mindless (adj), senseless (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insanity | Adjective: insane, mad, lunatic,loony; crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis; not right, cracked, touched; bereft of reason; all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind; insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft; phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic; possessed, possessed with a devil; deranged, maddened, moonstruck; shatterpated; mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained; touched, tetched; off one's head. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Reasonless |
| English words defined with "reasonless": causeless. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "reasonless": CUPID ♦ INFALAPSARIAN ♦ SEAL. (references) |
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Screenplays | Yarbles! Great bolshy yarblockos to you. I'll meet you with chain or nozh or britva anytime. I'm not having you aiming tolchocks at me reasonless. It stands to reason, I won't have it. (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authenticity and authority. Sometimes it is stamped upon wax, and attached to the paper, sometimes into the paper itself. Sealing, in this sense, is a survival of an ancient custom of inscribing important papers with cabalistic words or signs to give them a magical efficacy independent of the authority that they represent. In the British museum are preserved many ancient papers, mostly of a sacerdotal character, validated by necromantic pentagrams and other devices, frequently initial letters of words to conjure with; and in many instances these are attached in the same way that seals are appended now. As nearly every reasonless and apparently meaningless custom, rite or observance of modern times had origin in some remote utility, it is pleasing to note an example of ancient nonsense evolving in the process of ages into something really useful. Our word "sincere" is derived from sine cero, without wax, but the learned are not in agreement as to whether this refers to the absence of the cabalistic signs, or to that of the wax with which letters were formerly closed from public scrutiny. Either view of the matter will serve one in immediate need of an hypothesis. The initials L.S., commonly appended to signatures of legal documents, mean locum sigillis, the place of the seal, although the seal is no longer used -- an admirable example of conservatism distinguishing Man from the beasts that perish. The words locum sigillis are humbly suggested as a suitable motto for the Pribyloff Islands whenever they shall take their place as a sovereign State of the American Union. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "reasonless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неразумен (extravagant, impolitic, indiscreet, injudicious, insensate, irrational, senseless, thoughtless, unreasonable, unreasoning, unreflecting, unwise), неоснователен (gratuitous, groundless, idle, insubstantial, unfounded, ungrounded, vain, vexatious), безразсъден (daredevil, desperate, devil may care, injudicious, irrational, rash, reckless, temerarious, unreasonable, unreasoning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | nerozumný (foolish, impractical, unreasonable, unsound, unwise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | παράλογοσ (absonant, absurd, illogical, irrational, preposterous, senseless, unconscionable, unreasonable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | irrazionale (irrational). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | easonlessray fãrã motiv (causeless, for no reason, wantonly). (various references) vô lý (impertinent, nonsensical, unjustifiable), phi lý (amphigouric, illogical, preposterous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "reasonless": reasonlessly. (additional references) | |
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"Reasonless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: raisonnes, seasonless. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "reasonless" (pronounced 'Rea"son*less'): Accentless, Actionless, Actless, Afflictionless, Ageless, Aidless, Aimless, Airless, Aisless, Ambitionless, Anchorless, Answerless, Approachless, Apronless, Armless, Artless, Assistless, Authorless, Avoidless, Awless, Awnless, Backless, Badgeless, Barkless, Baseless, Bashless, Bateless, Beaconless, Beamless, Beardless, Beautiless, Beneficeless, Birthless, Bitless, Blameless, Blemishless, Bless, Blissless, Bloodless, Bloomless, Blossomless, Blotless, Blushless, Boastless, Bodiless, Boneless, Bonnetless, Bookless, Bootless, Boteless, Bottomless, Boundless, Bournless, Bowelless, Bowless, Bractless, Bragless, Brainless, Branchless, Breadless, Breadthless, Breathless, Breezeless, Bribeless, Bridgeless, Briefless, Brimless, Browless, Bushless, Careless, Carpetless, Chaffless, Chainless, Changeless, Chapeless, Chapless, Characterless, Chargeless, Charmless, Chartless, Checkless, Cheerless, Chiefless, Christless, Churchless, Claimless, Clankless, Clawless, Clerkless, Cloudless, Cloyless, Coatless, Coffinless, Colorless, Combless, Comfortless, Companionless, Compassless, Compunctionless, Conceitless, Confineless, Conscienceless, Constabless, Contentless, Corruptless, Costless, Couchless, Countless, Craftless, Cratureless, Creedless, Crestless, Crimeless, Crownless, Cubless, Cultureless, Curbless, Curdless, Cureless, Cushionless, Dangerless, Dateless, Dauntless, Deathless, Debtless, Deceitless, Decreaseless, Deedless, Defenseless, Delightless, Denseless, Depthless, Desertless, Designless, Desireless, Devoutless, Dewless, Dimensionless, Dinnerless, Discipless, Diskless, Disputeless, Distrustless, Divorceless, Dogeless, Doorless, Dowerless, Dreamless, Driftless, Drinkless, Drossless, Ductless, Dureless, Dustless, Eagless, Earless, Easeless, Echoless, Edgeless, Effectless, Effortless, Endless, Eventless, Exampleless, Exampless, Exceptionless, Exceptless, Excuseless, Exhaustless, Expenseless, Expressionless, Extremeless, Eyeless, Fadeless, Faithless, Fameless, Fanciless, Fangless, Fashionless, Fatherless, Fathomless, Faultless, Favorless, Fearless, Featherless, Featureless, Feckless, Feetless, Fellowless, Fenceless, Fetterless, Fineless, Finiteless, Finless, Fireless, Firmless, Flameless, flawless, Fleckless, Fleeceless, Fleshless, Floorless, flowerless, foamless, Fogless, Foldless, foodless, footless, forceless, Fordless, Forkless, formless, Fortuneless, Foundationless, Fountainless, Fraudless, Freightless, frictionless, FRIENDLESS, Frightless, Fringeless, Frockless, Frontless, Frostless, Frothless, Frounceless, fruitless, Fumeless, Functionless, Funuless, futureless, Gainless, Gameless, Gardenless, Garlandless, Gateless, Gaudless, Genderless, Germless, Gestureless, Ghostless, Glebeless, godless, Goldless, Goodless, graceless, Grammarless, Grapeless, Graspless, grassless, Graveless, Griefless, groundless, Guardianless, Guardless, Guerdonless, Guideless, guileless, guiltless, Gustless, hairless, Hammer-less, handless, hapless, Harborless, harmless, Harvestless, hatless, Haveless, Hazeless, headless, Healthless, heartless, heatless, Hedgeless, heedless, Heelless, Heirless, Helmless, helpless, Herbless, Hingeless, Hireless, Hiveless, homeless, Honeyless, Honorless, Hoodless, Hoofless, hopeless, hornless, Horseless, Hostless, HOUSELESS, hueless, humorless, Humpless, Hurtless, Husbandless, Idealess, Imageless, Importless, Impressionless, Irresistless, Issueless, Itchless, Jointless, Jointureless, joyless, juiceless, Kindless, Kingless, Knightless, Knotless, Laborless, Lampless, landless, Languageless, Laughterless, lawless, leafless, Leaveless, legless, Letterless, lidless, lifeless, lightless, limbless, limitless, lipless, listless, Lockless, lossless, loveless, luckless, Lungless, Lustless, Makeless, Manageless, Maneless, Manless, Marrowless, masterless, matchless, mateless, Matterless, measureless, meatless, merciless, Mightless, mindless, mirthless, Mistrustless, Moistless, Moistureless, moneyless, moonless, motherless, motionless, motiveless, Mouthless, Moveless, Museless, Nailless, Nameless, Napless, Nathless, Natureless, Needless, nerveless, Nevertheless, Nightless, Nimbless, Noiseless, Noseless, Noteless, Numberless, Numbless, Oarless, Objectless, Odorless, Offenseless, Opposeless, Orderless, Ownerless, Painless, Paintless, Palpless, Paneless, Pangless, Parallelless, Parentless, Passionless, Passless, Pastorless, Pastureless, Pathless, Patronless, Peaceless, Peerless. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-n-o-r-s-s-s" | |
-1 letter: reseasons, seasoners. | |
-2 letters: enolases, lassoers, noseless, realness, reseason, seasoner, soleness, soreness. | |
-3 letters: arenose, areoles, earless, enolase, lassoer, lassoes, leaners, leasers, lessens, lessons, lessors, loaners, loesses, oarless, rassles, reasons, reloans, resales, reseals, resoles, saroses, sarsens, sealers, seasons, senoras, senores, sensors, serosae, serosal, serosas, sonless. | |
-4 letters: aneles, anoles, areole, arseno, arsons, easels, enrols, erases, eroses, lanose, larees, lasers, lasses, lassos, leaner, learns, leaser, leases, lenses, leones, lessen, lesser, lesson, lessor, loaner, loners, lorans, losers, losses, nerols, nesses, ranees, rassle, reales, reason, reloan, resale, reseal, resole, salons, sarees, sarsen, sealer, season, senora, senors, senses, sensor, serosa, snares, snarls, sneers, snores, solans, sonars, sorels. | |
-5 letters: aeons, aloes, alone, anele, anole, arles, arose, arses, arson, asses, earls, earns, easel, eases, elans, enols, enrol, erase, ernes, erose, erses, esses, lanes, laree, lares, laser, lases, lasso, leans, learn, lears, lease, leers, lenes, lenos, lense, leone, loans, loess, loner, loran, lores, loser, loses, nares, nears, nerol, noels, noses, oases, orals, orles, rales, ranee, rases, reals, reels, renal, roans, roles, roses, sales, salon, saner, sanes, saree, saros, seals, sears, seels, seers, senor, sensa, sense, seral, seres, sloes, snare, snarl, sneer, snore, soars, solan, solar, soles, sonar, sones, soras, sorel, sores, sorns. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-n-o-r-s-s-s" | |
+1 letter: salesperson. | |
+2 letters: formalnesses, lemongrasses, personalises, reasonlessly, recessionals, salespersons. | |
+3 letters: cordialnesses, marvelousness. | |
+4 letters: adorablenesses, cowardlinesses, dilatorinesses, generalissimos, ironicalnesses, pastoralnesses, personableness, provablenesses, rationalnesses, reasonableness, slanderousness, solitarinesses, towardlinesses, workablenesses. | |
+5 letters: cholinesterases, clamorousnesses, colorfastnesses, comradelinesses, corporealnesses, elaboratenesses, favorablenesses, foolhardinesses, garrulousnesses, glamorousnesses, hilariousnesses, honorablenesses, laboriousnesses, maladroitnesses, marvelousnesses, memorablenesses, millionairesses, overzealousness, pictorialnesses, quarrelsomeness, removablenesses, voluntarinesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 61 73 6F 6E 6C 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .- ... --- -. .-.. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01100001 01110011 01101111 01101110 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e a s o n l e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0061 0073 006F 006E 006C 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52716785818078718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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