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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unreasonable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
it is reasonable/unreasonable to expect sth
▪ It’s unreasonable to expect a tenant to pay for repairs to the outside of the house.
unreasonable/unrealistic expectations (=expectations that are too high)
▪ I think you had unrealistic expectations of what could be achieved in the time.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
behaviour
▪ Acknowledge your jealousy, laugh at your unreasonable behaviour, and don't take yourself so seriously.
▪ Remember that unreasonable behaviour on your employer's part will not amount to constructive dismissal if the contract is not broken.
▪ Bloody-mindedness may sometimes amount to contributory fault, as may any particularly unreasonable behaviour.
demand
▪ Was she making unreasonable demands on Barbara?
▪ Specifically, they complained that the corporate and regional offices often made unreasonable demands on those in the field.
▪ Tam knew it was an unreasonable demand, especially on his last night at home.
▪ Consequently, they felt their superiors were making somewhat unreasonable demands.
▪ Price Others often make unreasonable demands on you.
▪ This happens when a loving parent suddenly makes what seem like utterly unreasonable demands and terrifying threats.
▪ Moreover, Purefoy may have made unreasonable demands on those who worked for him.
restraint
▪ The covenant was held to be an unreasonable restraint of trade.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ unreasonable expectations
▪ Don't you think it's a little unreasonable to charge someone $75 just for parking their car?
▪ Even the most caring parents will sometimes make unreasonable demands on their children.
▪ I don't think the amount of homework they get is unreasonable.
▪ I think your attitude is most unreasonable.
▪ It's unreasonable to expect people to pay for something they haven't even seen yet.
▪ It didn't seem like an unreasonable request.
▪ It is not unreasonable for parents to want schools to reinforce the values children are taught at home.
▪ It is possible for telephone companies to make profit without charging unreasonable rates.
▪ Now he's just being unreasonable.
▪ She divorced her husband on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour.
▪ Some news media have described the government's actions as excessive and unreasonable.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I don't know why you have such an unreasonable reaction to it.
▪ It is unreasonable to expect them to anticipate what additional rights they ought to have.
▪ Nevertheless, to require that all educating be done in public schools was considered arbitrary and unreasonable.
▪ Now it is not possible to give a confident answer to the question whether the delay was unreasonable.
▪ She knew she was being unreasonable, and she was worried she might alienate David.
▪ The trial court found that her demands were not petty or unreasonable, since they involved practices she felt were racially discriminatory.
▪ Within limits this seems a not unreasonable request.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unreasonable

Unreasonable \Un*rea"son*a*ble\, a. Not reasonable; irrational; immoderate; exorbitant. -- Un*rea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*rea"son*a*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unreasonable

mid-14c., "irrational, illogical," from un- (1) "not" + reasonable. From late 14c. as "excessive, going beyond what is sensible or realistic." Related: Unreasonably; unreasonableness.

Wiktionary
unreasonable

a. not reasonable

WordNet
unreasonable

  1. adj. 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]

Usage examples of "unreasonable".

For similar reasons, the requirements, without excluding other evidence, of a chemical analysis as a condition precedent to a suit to recover damages resulting to crops from allegedly deficient fertilizers is not deemed to be arbitrary or unreasonable.

It was as unreasonable as the presence of Jack Bedell among her passengers.

Only Dunster, my former friend and long-time enemy, has shunned pretence and invention and shown an unreasonable addiction to what he felt to be the truth.

The serious and not unreasonable fear that these armies of aliens, handled as they manifestly were by a generalship that was quick to seize and fortify in a conspicuous way the strategic points of influence, especially in the new States, might imperil or ruin the institutions and liberties of the young Republic, was stimulated and exploited in the interest of enterprises of evangelization that might counter-work the operations of the invading church.

I wrote to the noblest of women, whom in my unreasonable spite I had judged so wrongly.

Hope said, hoping to divert their attention from Faith who was being too unreasonable about the whole situation.

King Ishbahar, howsomever, is not an unreasonable individual when one can get his mind off his stomach.

King Ish-bahar, howsomever, is not an unreasonable individual when one can get his mind off his stomach.

It is unreasonable to suppose that fresh guards would slumber at a post where the penalty of slumbering was death.

It came out, however, from certain dark hints given by the first bass, that Specht had been unreasonable in his demands upon them.

Annette declined, saying she would wait until Spicer was better, Spicer said there was nothing wrong with him, only with her, her demands were unreasonable, but she was so afflicted in the Seventh House it was not surprising.

Andrea responded slowly, hiding her resentment with the uncomfortable feeling that it was both uncalled for and unreasonable.

I am sensitive to such things, and sleeping in my workroom, and having to tidy it up and stow away my bedclothes, and then settle down to a long day with my aporetics, gave me a sense of having lost caste, of having come down in the world, which was quite unreasonable but none the less real.

But without approving the extreme doctrine which General Jackson announced with the applause of his party, it is surely not an unreasonable assumption that in the case of a statute which has had no judicial interpretation and whose meaning is not altogether clear, the President is not to be impeached for acting upon his own understanding of its scope and intent:--especially is he not to be impeached when he offers to prove that he was sustained in his opinion by every member of his Cabinet, and offers further to prove by the same honorable witnesses that he took the step in order to subject the statute in dispute to judicial interpretation.

Guzman Bento, usually full of fanciful fears and brooding suspicions, had sudden accesses of unreasonable self-confidence when he perceived himself elevated on a pinnacle of power and safety beyond the reach of mere mortal plotters.