Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to unreason
Participle: unreasoned
Gerund: unreasoning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | unreason |
| you | unreason |
| he;she;it | unreasons |
| we | unreason |
| you | unreason |
| they | unreason |
Perfect
| I | have unreasoned |
| you | have unreasoned |
| he;she;it | has unreasoned |
| we | have unreasoned |
| you | have unreasoned |
| they | have unreasoned |
Past
| I | unreasoned |
| you | unreasoned |
| he;she;it | unreasoned |
| we | unreasoned |
| you | unreasoned |
| they | unreasoned |
Pluperfect
| I | had unreasoned |
| you | had unreasoned |
| he;she;it | had unreasoned |
| we | had unreasoned |
| you | had unreasoned |
| they | had unreasoned |
Future
| I | will unreason |
| you | will unreason |
| he;she;it | will unreason |
| we | will unreason |
| you | will unreason |
| they | will unreason |
Future Perfect
| I | will have unreasoned |
| you | will have unreasoned |
| he;she;it | will have unreasoned |
| we | will have unreasoned |
| you | will have unreasoned |
| they | will have unreasoned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | unreason |
| you | unreason |
| he;she;it | unreason |
| we | unreason |
| you | unreason |
| they | unreason |
Perfect
| I | have unreasoned |
| you | have unreasoned |
| he;she;it | have unreasoned |
| we | have unreasoned |
| you | have unreasoned |
| they | have unreasoned |
Imperfect
| I | unreasoned |
| you | unreasoned |
| he;she;it | unreasoned |
| we | unreasoned |
| you | unreasoned |
| they | unreasoned |
Pluperfect
| I | had unreasoned |
| you | had unreasoned |
| he;she;it | had unreasoned |
| we | had unreasoned |
| you | had unreasoned |
| they | had unreasoned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would unreason |
| you | would unreason |
| he;she;it | would unreason |
| we | would unreason |
| you | would unreason |
| they | would unreason |
Perfect
| I | would have unreasoned |
| you | would have unreasoned |
| he;she;it | would have unreasoned |
| we | would have unreasoned |
| you | would have unreasoned |
| they | would have unreasoned |
Imperative
| you | unreason |
| we | Let's unreason |
| you | unreason |
Verbs conjugated like 'unreason'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'unreason'
unseason,
outreason,
reason,
unperson,
greasen,
reseason,
season,
unbeast,
unbreast,
uncensor,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English unreson; equivalent to un- + reason.
Sample Sentences
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The reason of the unreasonable usage my reason has met with, so unreasons my reason, that I have reason to complain of your beauty :" and how did he enjoy the following flower of composition ! " [1796, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Tobias George Smollett: translator), The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote:]
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The elenchus enables him to overturn the formerly secure reasoning of his interlocutors about the subjects they discourse on so confidently—until the Socratic elenchus gradually unreasons them (see especially Meno, 80A—B). [2013, Norman Bryson, Michael Ann Holly, Keith Moxey, Visual Culture: Images and Interpretations, →ISBN, page 191:]
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Being a father can “unreason” your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. [2017, Adams Media, DAD: Hundreds of Awesome Quotes about the Guy Who Does It All, →ISBN:]
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After some trouble I have got the Programme, and now send it on to you ; I beg you to transcribe the first ten pages, in which he reasons, or rather unreasons, about homeopathy, and then send the Programme back to me, as I do not know how to procure another copy. [1889, The Homoeopathic World - Volume 24, page 251:]
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In other, happier times, the mind could unreason freely, as if it belonged to no age, emancipated as it was... [1985, Reginald Gibbons, Susan Hahn, TQ 20: Twenty Years of the Best Contemporary Writing and Graphics from TriQuarterly Magazine, page 89:]
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Just as Heidegger's reflections on the imagination led him to think "The nothing nothings," so Foucault's reflections on madness led him, in effect, to think "Unreason unreasons." [2005, Andrew Cutrofello, Continental Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction, →ISBN, page 88:]
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Unbelief unreasons a man: so the Apostle joyns them, when he prays to be delivered from unreasonable men; for all men have not faith. [1646, Thomas Case, Deliverance-obstruction, page 12:]
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My pathetic collapse provoked them. My unreasonableness unreasoned them. [2010, Tim Roux -, Shade+shadows: And Suddenly, Silently, They Simply Disappeared, →ISBN:]