Unreasonably Meaning
/ʌnˈɹiː.zən.ə.bli/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
advIn an unreasonable manner.
advTo an unreasonable degree.
Sentence Examples
This is an early work, I did it freely without storyboarding so it's unreasonably long.
His prices are unreasonably high.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The judge ____ sentenced the teenager to ten years for a minor theft.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The price of the new gadget was ____ high, so many people decided to wait for a sale before buying it today.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English unresonably, equivalent to unreasonable + -ly, after resonably (whence reasonably) and (originally) Late Latin irratiōnābiliter.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Fye, you confine your ſelfe moſt vnreaſonably: Come, you muſt go viſit the good Lady that lies in."
— c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 4, column 2:
"When I employ myself upon a paper of morality, I generally consider how I may recommend the particular virtue which I treat of, by the precepts or examples of the ancient heathens; by that means, if possible, to shame those who have greater advantages of knowing their duty, and therefore greater obligations to perform it, into a better course of life: besides that many among us are unreasonably disposed to give a fairer hearing to a pagan philosopher, than to a christian writer."
— 1711 November 3, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, “The Spectator”, in Saturday, volume 3, number 213:
"When thus gentle, Bessie seemed to me the best, prettiest, kindest being in the world; and I wished most intensely that she would always be so pleasant and amiable, and never push me about, or scold, or task me unreasonably, as she was too often wont to do."
— 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter IV, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 45:
"Until then, the Sunak administration remains a study in ineffectuality on multiple fronts, leading Goldsmith to cite, not unreasonably, “a kind of paralysis”."
— 2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian:
"The Senate of the United States has been both extravagantly praised and unreasonably disparaged, according to the predisposition and temper of its various critics."
— 1885, Woodrow Wilson, chapter 4, in Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, page 193:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The judge ____ sentenced the teenager to ten years for a minor theft.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The price of the new gadget was ____ high, so many people decided to wait for a sale before buying it today.