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US
/ənˈɹiznɪŋ/
]
[ UK /ʌnɹˈiːzənɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ʌnɹˈiːzənɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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not based on reason or evidence
unreasoning panic
blind hatred
blind faith
How To Use unreasoning In A Sentence
- At this moment of success I found only an unreasoning sense of futility.
- Here Grote defined philosophers as ‘individual reasoners' who ‘dissent from the unreasoning belief which reigns authoritative in the social atmosphere around them’.
- Most people are fairly adept at judging the character and personality of others, or at least at distinguishing unreasoning zealots from men of good sense.
- An unreasoning panic seized the cabmen and chauffeurs; they were possessed with the fixed idea that no bridge across the Seine was safe, and no bribe would persuade them to cross the river; while they refused to take fares for even the shortest distance. The Paris Flood of 1910 | Edwardian Promenade
- When a man is in the unsatisfied stages of love he must expect occasional attacks of greensickness, sullen passions intensified by unreasoning fear. Black Oxen
- The unreasoning, regular arrival of the stuff convinces me that only people who had turned themselves into loathsome machines for unguessable reasons could be behind it.
- Mr Justice Sumner said: ‘Her views on MMR are influenced by her mother's unreasoning and rigid approach.’
- Their unreasoning hostility and violence is merely a psychological projection of our own self-destructive impulses.
- No, Minter was motivated more by the unreasoning malice which individual achievement seemed often to inspire in others.
- After his embarrassment and his unreasoning joy he was consumed with wonder at her presence.