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reasonless

(ˈriːzənlɪs)

adj

without reason

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Adj.	1.	reasonless - not marked by the use of reason; "mindless violence"; "reasonless hostility"; "a senseless act" senseless, mindless unreasonable - not reasonable; not showing good judgment
	2.	reasonless - not endowed with the capacity to reason; "a reasonless brute" irrational - not consistent with or using reason; "irrational fears"; "irrational animals"
	3.	reasonless - having no justifying cause or reason; "a senseless, causeless murder"; "a causeless war that never had an aim"; "an apparently arbitrary and reasonless change" causeless unmotivated - without motivation

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As I write this, all the beings and happenings of that other world rise up before me in vast phantasmagoria, and I know that to you they would be rhymeless and reasonless.

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But the time was at hand, rhymeless and reasonless so far as I can see, when I was to begin to pay for my score of years of dallying with John Barleycorn.

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He felt toward them a kind of reasonless antipathy that was something more than the physical and spiritual repugnance common to us all.

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Of all unbeautiful and inappropriate conceptions this is the most reasonless and offensive.

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Suspicious, reasonless. Why should thir Lord Envie them that?

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It seemed to her that a moment's respite was allowed, a moment's make-believe, and then again the profound and reasonless law asserted itself, moulding them all to its liking, making and destroying.

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Whereas Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno locate such pretensions in Greek religion and literature as well as in Enlightenment secularism and rationalism--the impulse to "establish man as the master of nature" ([1944] 2002)--Woolf suggests that at the heart of ancient tragedy lies an amoral cosmos, in which heroes and heroines suffer reasonless fates.