释义 |
un·reason I. \“+\ noun Etymology: Middle English unresoun, from un- (I) + resoun reason 1. : an act devoid of rational excuse or justification : conduct based on unconsidered impulse rather than on prudence, calculation, or morality < sought to moderate the new church; to prevent the monstrous riot and unreason which followed — A.D.White > 2. a. : the absence of reason or sanity : disorder of mind : want of rational faculty or competence : irrationality, madness < her thoughts went quickly down this ladder of unreason — Jean Stafford > < this hysterical state of unreason — Dorothy C. Fisher > b. : lack of systematic or intelligible order : absence of arrangement, control, or guidance according to reasoned plan : chaos, confusion < waste, unreason, moral conflict everywhere abound — J.A.Hobson > II. transitive verb Etymology: un- (II) + reason, n. 1. : to unhinge the reason or sanity of 2. obsolete : disprove |