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Reasonless

adjective

Not marked by the use of reason. Synonyms: mindless, senseless. "Reasonless hostility" , "A senseless act"

Not endowed with the capacity to reason.

Having no justifying cause or reason. Synonym: causeless. "A causeless war that never had an aim" , "An apparently arbitrary and reasonless change"

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... all strange,—before it was a year old, the baby had found its way quite down into the middle of Aunt 'Viny's heart. To be sure, it was a deal of trouble; it would ache and cry in a reasonless way, when nobody could tell what ailed it; it would take a great amount of caring-for with ungrateful silence and utter want of demonstration for a long time;—but then it was so helpless! —irresistible plea to a woman!—and under all Miss 'Viny's rough exterior, her heart ...

— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 37, November, 1860 • Various

... as can be expected. Denis—I need hardly say, need I?—flourishes like the green bay tree in all his works. He's happy, like you. No, not like you a bit; he's got things to be happy about; his happiness isn't a reasonless lunacy; it's got a sound bottom to it. The boy is a fine boy, probably going to be nearly as beautiful as Denis, but with Lucy's eyes. And Lucy's happy enough, I hope. Knows Denis inside and out, you know, and has accepted him, for better ...

— The Lee Shore • Rose Macaulay

Words linked to "Reasonless" : causeless, unmotivated, senseless, irrational, unreasonable