unreasonable adj

1 not reasonable; not showing good judgment [ant: reasonable]

2 pungent adjectives of disesteem; "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books" [syn: cockamamie, cockamamy, goofy, sappy, silly, wacky, whacky, zany]

3 absurd and inappropriate; "the unreasonable nimbus of romance with which she had encircled that man"- Thomas Hardy

4 beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands" [syn: excessive, inordinate, undue]

5 inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman [syn: absurd]

English

Pronunciation

Adjective

1. not reasonable

Antonyms

• reasonable

a bit much, abandoned, absonant, absurd, arbitrary, bigoted, blind, boundless, brainless, capricious, contradictory, contrary to reason, cranky, crazy, crotchety, cutthroat, egregious, enormous, exacting, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, extremist, fabulous, fallacious, fanatic, fanciful, fancy, fantasied, fantastic, fatuous, faulty, flaky, flawed, foolish, freakish, gigantic, gluttonous, gouging, grossly overpriced, haggard, harebrained, high, humorsome, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, idiotic, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged, illogical, imbecilic, immoderate, impolitic, impractical, improper, imprudent, inadvisable, inappropriate, inapt, inauthentic, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderate, inconsistent, incontinent, indefensible, indiscreet, inequitable, inexcusable, inexpedient, inexpiable, inflationary, injudicious, inordinate, insane, insensate, intemperate, invalid, irrational, irremissible, kinky, laughable, loose, ludicrous, mad, maggoty, mindless, misadvised, misguided, monstrous, moody, moronic, motiveless, myopic, nonrational, nonscientific, nonsensical, not following, notional, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, overbig, overdeveloped, overenthusiastic, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge, overmuch, overpriced, overreligious, overweening, overzealous, paralogical, peremptory, perfervid, petulant, preposterous, prohibitive, quirky, rabid, reasonless, reckless, ridiculous, self-annulling, self-contradictory, self-refuting, senseless, short-sighted, shortsighted, silly, skyrocketing, sophistic, spiraling, steep, stiff, stupid, temperamental, thoughtless, too much, ultrazealous, unadvised, unallowable, unapt, unauthentic, unbefitting, unbridled, uncalled-for, unconnected, unconscionable, unconsidered, undiscerning, undue, unequal, unfair, unforeseeing, unforgivable, unjust, unjustifiable, unjustified, unlawful, unpardonable, unperceiving, unperceptive, unphilosophical, unrealistic, unreflecting, unreflective, unrestrained, unscientific, unseeing, unsensible, unsound, unsuitable, unthinking, unthoughtful, unwarrantable, unwarranted, unwise, usurious, vagarious, vagrant, wanton, wayward, whimsical, wild-eyed, wild-looking, without reason, witless, wrongful, zealotic