The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reasonless \Rea"son*less\, a.
Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind.
--Shak.-
Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable.
This proffer is absurd and reasonless.
--Shak.
WordNet
adj. not marked by the use of reason; "mindless violence"; "reasonless hostility"; "a senseless act" [syn: mindless, senseless]
not endowed with the capacity to reason; "a reasonless brute"
having no justifying cause or reason; "a senseless, causeless murder"; "a causeless war that never had an aim"; "an apparently arbitrary and reasonless change" [syn: causeless]
Usage examples of "reasonless".
Tommy, obedient as always, felt a sudden reasonless resentment as he heard their voices rise again behind him.
Now a judging entity is nobler than one that merely accepts a state: it is a principle of Reason or of Intellection: pleasure is a state: the reasonless can never be closer to the Good than reason is.
It must be of a very different nature, of the very contrary nature, separated from the other by all the difference between reason and reasonless chance.
The tune of an incantation, a significant cry, the mien of the operator, these too have a natural leading power over the soul upon which they are directed, drawing it with the force of mournful patterns or tragic sounds--for it is the reasonless soul, not the will or wisdom, that is beguiled by music, a form of sorcery which raises no question, whose enchantment, indeed, is welcomed, exacted, from the performers.
Then suddenly like a reasonless wind out of heaven the thing came near.
Yet they issued from the same vocal chords, unless Forth were having a reasonless, macabre joke.
Anne who had lied to him and who, reasonless, declined to wear his ring.
For the first time, Medra was given a vision of magic not as a set of strange gifts and reasonless acts, but as an art and a craft, which could be known truly with long study and used rightly after long practice, though even then it would never lose its strangeness.
But she could not throw off the reasonless fear that oppressed her, although she forced it back a little.
He felt toward them a kind of reasonless antipathy that was something more than the physical and spiritual repugnance common to us all.
They had been many days together, and his death had been too sudden, too reasonless to be understood.
Several times she had awakened in a cold sweat, with her heart pounding, and her mind paralyzed with reasonless fear.