as in unreasonable
not using or following good reasoning
the illogical claim that playing basketball makes people taller because one sees so many tall players illogical people are likely to believe every sensational claim made on TV
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Recent Examples of illogical
Saving constitutes such a huge, key chunk of life that spending can feel illogical and wrong.
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Steve Booren, Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2026
Indescribable, illogical, and oh-so powerful belief.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2026
However, the market is made up of both sensible and irrational participants, and all of that action, both the logical and illogical, is going to be reflected in the stock chart.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 30 Dec. 2025
Yet the Administration not only acts as if residency is a magic condition but offers a completely illogical and contradictory definition of what residency is.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
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Steve Booren, Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2026
Indescribable, illogical, and oh-so powerful belief.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2026
However, the market is made up of both sensible and irrational participants, and all of that action, both the logical and illogical, is going to be reflected in the stock chart.
—Zev Fima, CNBC, 30 Dec. 2025
Yet the Administration not only acts as if residency is a magic condition but offers a completely illogical and contradictory definition of what residency is.
—Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for illogical
Adjective
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As in Williams’ case, attorneys argued that a sweep had violated the plaintiffs’ Fourth Amendment rights protecting them from unreasonable search and seizure, as well as their 14th Amendment right to due process.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacbee.com,
24 Mar. 2026
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Because that is ultimately what The Secret Garden is about—the stubborn, almost unreasonable insistence of living things to grow toward the light.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Mar. 2026
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There’s something both early American and midcentury modern in the design of these solid-oak vanities, which arrived just as everyone seems to have gotten over an irrational fear of brown furniture.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
31 Mar. 2026
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The answer turned out to be four more years of sacrifice, struggle, and hope that must have felt, at times, completely irrational.—
Sharon McMahon,
Glamour,
25 Mar. 2026
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Bainbridge knew about secrets and unreasoning shame.—
Christopher Tayler,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Let sound political prescience but take the place of an unreasoning prejudice, and this will be done.—
Frederick Douglass,
The Atlantic,
16 Aug. 2017
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The show followed the destitute Cuylers — father Early, his illegitimate son Rusty, his meth-loving sister Lily, and his crabby grandmother Granny — and their various moneymaking high jinks.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
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But then a mysterious Romany woman (Rebecca Ferguson) turns up, and persuades him to return to Birmingham, in order to bring his violent illegitimate son (Barry Keoghan) – who now runs his Peaky Blinders mob – to heel.—
The Week UK,
TheWeek,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Illogical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illogical. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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