unreasonableadj.adv.

Brit.

/(ˌ)ʌnˈriːzn̩əbl/,

/(ˌ)ʌnˈriːz(ə)nəbl/, U.S.

/ˌənˈrizn̩əb(ə)l/,

/ˌənˈrizənəb(ə)l/

Forms: see un- prefix¹ and reasonable adj., n., and adv.; also Middle English vnresonale (probably transmission error).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: un- prefix¹, reasonable adj.

Etymology: < un- prefix¹ + reasonable adj., originally partly after post-classical Latin irrationabilis irrationable adj. With the use as adverb compare earlier unreasonably adv.

A. adj.

1. Of a person or animal: not having the faculty of reason, incapable of reasoning. Also: belonging to or characteristic of such a person or animal.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > lack of reason, irrationality > [adjective]

skillessc1175

unskilwisec1340

witlessa1382

unreasonablec1384

reasonlessa1450

unrationablea1500

unreasoned1582

irrationable1583

discourseless1620

irrational1661

unreasoning1682

dicked-up1967

ill1979

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > lack of reason, irrationality > [adjective] > not based on reason

hoflesc1175

unreasonablec1384

fantastica1387

disreasonablec1550

reasonless1556

idle1590

alogical1603

groundless1620

irrational1641

unreasonal1650

adoxal1652

irrationable1657

unreasoning1682

untoward1682

unfaceablea1825

aberrational1837

non-rational1859

irrationalistic1910

a bit hot1925

arational1935

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) 2 Pet. ii. 12 Thes sotheli [ben] as vnresounable beestes [L. inrationabilia pecora].

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vi. xviii. 318 A man..is not iset ouer resonabil beestis but ouer vnresona [b] le bestis [L. irrationalibus animalibus].

a1475 Visio Philiberti (Brogyntyn) in J. O. Halliwell Early Eng. Misc. (1855) 30 (MED) Wold God I had byne unreyssonnabule As an hond; then had I byne out of payne.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. iii. 110 Thy wilde actes denote The vnresonable [1599 vnreasonable] furyes of a beast.

1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxviii. 265 Nay go to your Raven and Stag, those longest-livers of all the unreasonable breathers.

a1740 W. Dorman Twelve Serm. (1743) ii. 38 An unreasonable brute is in a much more desirable state and condition, than an ungodly and impious man.

1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth lxxi. 187 There were buffaloes, lizards,..leopards; any unreasonable beast but the right one.

1904 G. K. Chesterton Napoleon of Notting Hill iv. ii. 219 The red-haired madman whom any two doctors would lock up is filling this room with his roaring, unreasonable soul.

1995 B. Dooley tr. P. Sarpi in Italy in Baroque i. 60 The unreasonable animals seek only their natural and necessary pleasures, as the perfect man should.

2. Not within the limits of what would be rational or sensible to expect; excessive in amount or degree.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adjective] > excessive or too great in amount or degree

overmeteeOE

unmeeteOE

unimeteOE

unmethelyOE

over-mickleOE

hoflesc1175

overmucha1300

unskilwisea1340

unskilfulc1370

luxuriousc1374

overseemingc1384

superfluec1384

unreasonablea1387

outrageousc1390

over-greatc1390

overlargec1390

overgrowna1398

unmeasurablea1398

unmoderatea1398

unordinatea1398

immoderate1398

rankc1400

overabundantc1410

excessivea1420

superabundant?a1425

unmeasureda1425

superfluousc1475

nimious?c1500

surfeitc1500

overliberala1535

torc1540

exceeding1548

distemperate1557

over-ranka1568

overswelling1582

accessive1583

overaboundinga1600

overteeming1603

excessful1633

overproportionated1647

superproportioned1652

over-proportioned1662

overproportionate1672

unduea1684

unequal1704

unmerciful1707

hypermetric1854

hypertrophied1879

over the top1980

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 491 (MED) Þere stondeþ þe erle of Chestre, a man of unresonable hardynesse [L. audaciae irrationabilis].

Remonstr. against Romish Corruptions (Titus) (1851) 20 (MED) Innocent the thridde hath maad vnreesonable statute of confessioun for pride and wynnynge of prestis.

?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 233 Lordis many tymes don wrongis to pore men bi..vnresonable taxis.

1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. C8 Is not this too vnreasonable to take a crowne..for writing six or seuen lines?

1680 H. Prideaux Lett. (1875) 79 Unreasonable prices set upon Bibles.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 9 Almost, any reasonable Quantity might have been sold there; but the Truth is, We had an unreasonable Quantity.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xix. 373 He had to wait a most unreasonable time for a judgment.

1919 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 1 Nov. 569/2 In the commercial world the presence of a lively competition in most trades is a fairly certain guarantee against unreasonable prices.

2008 M. Driscoll & G. Breshears Vintage Church 151 Their tactics include various kinds of stalling, such as..demanding an unreasonable number of meetings and an unreasonable amount of information.

a. Of an idea, attitude, action, etc.: not guided by, or based upon, reason, good sense, or sound judgement; illogical.

ΚΠ

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 761 (MED) In thelementz and ek also Thei hadden a believe tho; And al was that unresonable, For thelementz ben servicable To man.

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. vi. l. 153 For it is an vnresonable Religioun þat hath riȝte nouȝte of certeyne.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) lxxvii. §76. 290 He did him away fra..nurishynge of vnresonabill thoghtis.

1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance ii. xv. f. xlii To shew that the same spyrytuall law, whyche this man wold proue vnreasonable, is not in dede proued vnreasonable.

1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 54 I do hold the Prisoner's Plea vain, and unreasonable.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 164. ¶1 He contracted an unreasonable Aversion towards his Son.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 159 Fifteen hundred families emigrated in a few days. The panic was not unreasonable..they had become a prey.

1966 C. H. D. Clark Scientist & Supernatural v. 175 The humanist trust in reason alone is actually unreasonable, since logic would suggest that affluence and scientific advancement ought to be accompanied by increasing mental satisfaction.

2010 N.Y. Times 12 Jan. a14/3 To ask a well-trained 130-pound man if he can lift what a well-trained 400-pound man can lift is asking an unreasonable question.

†b. Inequitable, unfair; unjustifiable. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > unjustness > [adjective]

unrighteOE

unrightfulOE

wrongousa1200

wrongfulc1311

unevenc1380

unjustc1384

untrue1393

injustc1430

unreasonablec1440

unduec1450

inique1521

unequal1535

wry1561

undeserved?c1570

justless1578

unrighted1608

unequitable1643

inequitable1667

unfair1724

iniquitablea1734

unsportsmanlike1754

unsportsmanly1776

unsporting1859

below the belt1892

red-hot1896

society > morality > rightness or justice > wrong or injustice > [adjective]

unrighteOE

unrightfulOE

wronga1275

wrongfulc1325

wrongous1357

unjustc1384

untrue1393

injustc1430

unreasonablec1440

unconscionable1492

injuriousa1513

wry1561

justless1578

iniquous1655

iniquitous1726

c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 3453 I rede thow rekkyn and reherse vnresonable dedis.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cxc. [clxxxvi.] 582 We haue to laye to his charge dyuers artycles vnresonable whiche requyre iudgement of punisyon.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvi. 140 That..which thou thinkest unreasonable to be done by another to thy selfe.

1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent i. ii. 16 This Exclusion of the Heirs Female was likewise held unreasonable and void in the Custom of the Tanistry.

4. Of a person: not behaving in a reasonable manner; irrational.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > lack of reason, irrationality > [adjective] > not based on reason > in action

unreasonablea1400

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 6614 Quen þai þis sagh qua soþ wil say. þa vnresonable folk þuȝt na play.

1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lvii. 83 This newe kynge..was to them full hard and felon & also to al his comyns he was vnresonable.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxxvj Least thei beyng nedy and innocente people, should be..turmented, with the vnreasonable men of warre.

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. 3 [This] will give the most reasonable men satisfaction; for the unreasonable, I care not a fig for them.

1769 F. Brooke Hist. Emily Montague I. xi. 73 ‘You Europeans,’ said he, ‘are the most unreasonable people in the world; you laugh at our belief in dreams, and yet expect us to believe things a thousand times more incredible.’

1876 J. B. Mozley Serm. Univ. Oxf. x. 233 They are not so unreasonable as to expect that they can like persons without knowing them.

1933 H. G. Wells Bulpington of Blup vii. 269 When I hear the things you say, it seems to me the face and voice of an unreasonable child.

2010 Independent 16 Aug. (Viewspaper section) 4/3 If a woman argues, cries, gets jealous or bloaty, she's tarred with the ‘neurotic’ brush and dismissed as unreasonable.

B. adv.

Excessively, extremely, unreasonably. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adverb] > excessively or immoderately

too971

unimeteOE

unmethelyOE

overmetec1225

un-i-methc1225

unmeetly?c1225

unmethc1225

overgarta1333

outrageouslya1387

outrageousc1390

unreasonablyc1400

outragelya1425

unmoderately?a1425

inordinatelyc1450

unrulilyc1456

dismeasurably1474

immoderately1482

overharda1500

unreasonable1535

furiously1555

intemperately1576

overliberally1578

unconscionably1583

unconscionable1596

exorbitantlya1635

undulya1779

owdaciously1848

1535 J. Mason in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 55 Vitaylls be of a competent pryce: all other things as cloth, lether, books, etc. be unresonable dere.

1608 T. Middleton Trick to catch Old-one sig. B2^v When the fire growes too vnreasonable hotte, ther's no better way then to take of the wood.

?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 305 His expences..were unreasonable high.

1858 P. Paxton Piney Woods Tavern xxiv. 259 I knew he'd help us in this hoss bisniss, and not tax onreasonable.

1927 R. Kipling Let. 2 May (2004) V. ii. 354 The mail has not been too unreasonable heavy, and I am abreast of it all or almost all.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	unreasonable
释义	unreasonableadj.adv. Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈriːzn̩əbl/, /(ˌ)ʌnˈriːz(ə)nəbl/, U.S. /ˌənˈrizn̩əb(ə)l/, /ˌənˈrizənəb(ə)l/ Forms: see un- prefix¹ and reasonable adj., n., and adv.; also Middle English vnresonale (probably transmission error). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: un- prefix¹, reasonable adj. Etymology: < un- prefix¹ + reasonable adj., originally partly after post-classical Latin irrationabilis irrationable adj. With the use as adverb compare earlier unreasonably adv. A. adj. 1. Of a person or animal: not having the faculty of reason, incapable of reasoning. Also: belonging to or characteristic of such a person or animal. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > lack of reason, irrationality > [adjective] skillessc1175 unskilwisec1340 witlessa1382 unreasonablec1384 reasonlessa1450 unrationablea1500 unreasoned1582 irrationable1583 discourseless1620 irrational1661 unreasoning1682 dicked-up1967 ill1979 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > lack of reason, irrationality > [adjective] > not based on reason hoflesc1175 unreasonablec1384 fantastica1387 disreasonablec1550 reasonless1556 idle1590 alogical1603 groundless1620 irrational1641 unreasonal1650 adoxal1652 irrationable1657 unreasoning1682 untoward1682 unfaceablea1825 aberrational1837 non-rational1859 irrationalistic1910 a bit hot1925 arational1935 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) (1850) 2 Pet. ii. 12 Thes sotheli [ben] as vnresounable beestes [L. inrationabilia pecora]. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vi. xviii. 318 A man..is not iset ouer resonabil beestis but ouer vnresona [b] le bestis [L. irrationalibus animalibus]. a1475 Visio Philiberti (Brogyntyn) in J. O. Halliwell Early Eng. Misc. (1855) 30 (MED) Wold God I had byne unreyssonnabule As an hond; then had I byne out of payne. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. iii. 110 Thy wilde actes denote The vnresonable [1599 vnreasonable] furyes of a beast. View more context for this quotation 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxviii. 265 Nay go to your Raven and Stag, those longest-livers of all the unreasonable breathers. a1740 W. Dorman Twelve Serm. (1743) ii. 38 An unreasonable brute is in a much more desirable state and condition, than an ungodly and impious man. 1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth lxxi. 187 There were buffaloes, lizards,..leopards; any unreasonable beast but the right one. 1904 G. K. Chesterton Napoleon of Notting Hill iv. ii. 219 The red-haired madman whom any two doctors would lock up is filling this room with his roaring, unreasonable soul. 1995 B. Dooley tr. P. Sarpi in Italy in Baroque i. 60 The unreasonable animals seek only their natural and necessary pleasures, as the perfect man should. 2. Not within the limits of what would be rational or sensible to expect; excessive in amount or degree. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adjective] > excessive or too great in amount or degree overmeteeOE unmeeteOE unimeteOE unmethelyOE over-mickleOE hoflesc1175 overmucha1300 unskilwisea1340 unskilfulc1370 luxuriousc1374 overseemingc1384 superfluec1384 unreasonablea1387 outrageousc1390 over-greatc1390 overlargec1390 overgrowna1398 unmeasurablea1398 unmoderatea1398 unordinatea1398 immoderate1398 rankc1400 overabundantc1410 excessivea1420 superabundant?a1425 unmeasureda1425 superfluousc1475 nimious?c1500 surfeitc1500 overliberala1535 torc1540 exceeding1548 distemperate1557 over-ranka1568 overswelling1582 accessive1583 overaboundinga1600 overteeming1603 excessful1633 overproportionated1647 superproportioned1652 over-proportioned1662 overproportionate1672 unduea1684 unequal1704 unmerciful1707 hypermetric1854 hypertrophied1879 over the top1980 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 491 (MED) Þere stondeþ þe erle of Chestre, a man of unresonable hardynesse [L. audaciae irrationabilis]. Remonstr. against Romish Corruptions (Titus) (1851) 20 (MED) Innocent the thridde hath maad vnreesonable statute of confessioun for pride and wynnynge of prestis. ?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 233 Lordis many tymes don wrongis to pore men bi..vnresonable taxis. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. C8 Is not this too vnreasonable to take a crowne..for writing six or seuen lines? 1680 H. Prideaux Lett. (1875) 79 Unreasonable prices set upon Bibles. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 9 Almost, any reasonable Quantity might have been sold there; but the Truth is, We had an unreasonable Quantity. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xix. 373 He had to wait a most unreasonable time for a judgment. 1919 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 1 Nov. 569/2 In the commercial world the presence of a lively competition in most trades is a fairly certain guarantee against unreasonable prices. 2008 M. Driscoll & G. Breshears Vintage Church 151 Their tactics include various kinds of stalling, such as..demanding an unreasonable number of meetings and an unreasonable amount of information. 3. a. Of an idea, attitude, action, etc.: not guided by, or based upon, reason, good sense, or sound judgement; illogical. ΚΠ a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 761 (MED) In thelementz and ek also Thei hadden a believe tho; And al was that unresonable, For thelementz ben servicable To man. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. vi. l. 153 For it is an vnresonable Religioun þat hath riȝte nouȝte of certeyne. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) lxxvii. §76. 290 He did him away fra..nurishynge of vnresonabill thoghtis. 1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance ii. xv. f. xlii To shew that the same spyrytuall law, whyche this man wold proue vnreasonable, is not in dede proued vnreasonable. 1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 54 I do hold the Prisoner's Plea vain, and unreasonable. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 164. ¶1 He contracted an unreasonable Aversion towards his Son. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 159 Fifteen hundred families emigrated in a few days. The panic was not unreasonable..they had become a prey. 1966 C. H. D. Clark Scientist & Supernatural v. 175 The humanist trust in reason alone is actually unreasonable, since logic would suggest that affluence and scientific advancement ought to be accompanied by increasing mental satisfaction. 2010 N.Y. Times 12 Jan. a14/3 To ask a well-trained 130-pound man if he can lift what a well-trained 400-pound man can lift is asking an unreasonable question. †b. Inequitable, unfair; unjustifiable. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > unjustness > [adjective] unrighteOE unrightfulOE wrongousa1200 wrongfulc1311 unevenc1380 unjustc1384 untrue1393 injustc1430 unreasonablec1440 unduec1450 inique1521 unequal1535 wry1561 undeserved?c1570 justless1578 unrighted1608 unequitable1643 inequitable1667 unfair1724 iniquitablea1734 unsportsmanlike1754 unsportsmanly1776 unsporting1859 below the belt1892 red-hot1896 society > morality > rightness or justice > wrong or injustice > [adjective] unrighteOE unrightfulOE wronga1275 wrongfulc1325 wrongous1357 unjustc1384 untrue1393 injustc1430 unreasonablec1440 unconscionable1492 injuriousa1513 wry1561 justless1578 iniquous1655 iniquitous1726 c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 3453 I rede thow rekkyn and reherse vnresonable dedis. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cxc. [clxxxvi.] 582 We haue to laye to his charge dyuers artycles vnresonable whiche requyre iudgement of punisyon. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvi. 140 That..which thou thinkest unreasonable to be done by another to thy selfe. 1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent i. ii. 16 This Exclusion of the Heirs Female was likewise held unreasonable and void in the Custom of the Tanistry. 4. Of a person: not behaving in a reasonable manner; irrational. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > lack of reason, irrationality > [adjective] > not based on reason > in action unreasonablea1400 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 6614 Quen þai þis sagh qua soþ wil say. þa vnresonable folk þuȝt na play. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lvii. 83 This newe kynge..was to them full hard and felon & also to al his comyns he was vnresonable. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxxvj Least thei beyng nedy and innocente people, should be..turmented, with the vnreasonable men of warre. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. 3 [This] will give the most reasonable men satisfaction; for the unreasonable, I care not a fig for them. 1769 F. Brooke Hist. Emily Montague I. xi. 73 ‘You Europeans,’ said he, ‘are the most unreasonable people in the world; you laugh at our belief in dreams, and yet expect us to believe things a thousand times more incredible.’ 1876 J. B. Mozley Serm. Univ. Oxf. x. 233 They are not so unreasonable as to expect that they can like persons without knowing them. 1933 H. G. Wells Bulpington of Blup vii. 269 When I hear the things you say, it seems to me the face and voice of an unreasonable child. 2010 Independent 16 Aug. (Viewspaper section) 4/3 If a woman argues, cries, gets jealous or bloaty, she's tarred with the ‘neurotic’ brush and dismissed as unreasonable. B. adv. Excessively, extremely, unreasonably. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adverb] > excessively or immoderately too971 unimeteOE unmethelyOE overmetec1225 un-i-methc1225 unmeetly?c1225 unmethc1225 overgarta1333 outrageouslya1387 outrageousc1390 unreasonablyc1400 outragelya1425 unmoderately?a1425 inordinatelyc1450 unrulilyc1456 dismeasurably1474 immoderately1482 overharda1500 unreasonable1535 furiously1555 intemperately1576 overliberally1578 unconscionably1583 unconscionable1596 exorbitantlya1635 undulya1779 owdaciously1848 1535 J. Mason in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 55 Vitaylls be of a competent pryce: all other things as cloth, lether, books, etc. be unresonable dere. 1608 T. Middleton Trick to catch Old-one sig. B2^v When the fire growes too vnreasonable hotte, ther's no better way then to take of the wood. ?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 305 His expences..were unreasonable high. 1858 P. Paxton Piney Woods Tavern xxiv. 259 I knew he'd help us in this hoss bisniss, and not tax onreasonable. 1927 R. Kipling Let. 2 May (2004) V. ii. 354 The mail has not been too unreasonable heavy, and I am abreast of it all or almost all. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.adv.c1384
随便看	be dying to do be ease be easy! be economical of the truth be economical of truth be economical with the actualité be economical with the truth be economical with truth be enamoured be endorsed out be endued with be etc a person's way be etc fun be etc hopping be etc in a person's books be etc in a time warp be etc in disfavour be etc in the wash be etc into a person's books be etc mastery be etc met be etc put to it be etc served be etc the mark be even