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illogical

[ih-loj-i-kuhl]

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adjective

not logical; contrary to or disregardful of the rules of logic; unreasoning: an illogical reply.

Origin:
1580–90; il-² + logical

Related forms

il·log·i·cal·ly, adverb

il·log·i·cal·ness, noun

Synonyms
unsound, absurd, preposterous.

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Example Sentences

Some of their proposed usages are internally illogical.

Even arguments for academic freedom, he said, risk straying into illogical territory.

Your illogical misadventures should highlight it for her nicely.

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Some of their proposed usages are internally illogical.

Even arguments for academic freedom, he said, risk straying into illogical territory.

Your illogical misadventures should highlight it for her nicely.

We need to stop brainwashing children to believe the illogical.

What some have pointed out is that his argument is illogical.

Although it has a certain fund of originality, it is spasmodically illogical and bewildering.

Debate her one on one if you dare instead of creating illogical strawmen to savage.

Ethnocentrism and cultural xenophobia are merely tools used by illogical people to sway public opinion to achieve political aims.

No conspiracy theories, no wacky illogical prejudices, nothing.

It's always been driven by illogical fear and panic.

To say that the child must first develop inner structure is illogical.

Failing to recognize seniority should be consider morally deplorable and illogical.

Then there are those that are completely illogical and thus utterly infuriating.

It does convey the message, but is illogical in some places and constructed poorly.

It is perhaps ironic that the character himself would likely have raised an eyebrow at that dichotomy and declared it illogical.

Expert opinions differ, but the question is hardly illogical.

But your claim is so foolish and illogical that it defies explanation.

It is illogical to have both houses based on a similar population based model.

No one can try to place logic upon an act so clearly illogical.

It is not illogical to do so, but the error term is exceptionally high.

The tiny apartments makes storing anything at home illogical.

It's illogical on its face, because nobody has the information required to identify the offending transactions.

It is illogical to have the washing machine in a room that you have to trudge down a corridor to reach.

Perhaps it could even suggest an alternative to the illogical but comforting religions.

It is illogical to charge for one but not the other, he says.

Buddhist koans are imitating an illogical and incoherent thinking characteristic for a state of sleep.

In part, it lay in the vivid though somewhat illogical story they seemed to tell in a succession of cinematically scaled episodes.

Yagoda is acquitted is illogical in the extreme,'' she said.

General paranoia and an illogical attachment to shiny metals keeps their prices permanently elevated above any sense of utility.

The mentality that the world can be stable is illogical and derives from limited human perception and our short life-span.

Even more distressing, illogical comments are made about the events at hand.

Thus it's possible for us to take this issue to its illogical extremes.

It is illogical to think any legally imposed death penalty will do better.

There's nothing in my post that resembles the illogical mess you're attributing to me, here.

As it would be illogical for a man to be feminine, the word is technically masculine.

Yet another riveting, emotional, tear-rending defense of a completely illogical foreign policy.

To further burden our community with the proposed expansion is illogical and unacceptable.

But it would be illogical to complain at the same time about falling standards.

Further it is totally illogical to expect someone to work without access to colleagues.

Then this seems a bit defeatist, not to mention illogical.

If this were really the theory of evolution it would truly be an illogical and fantastic proposition.

Tuning their minds, they follow thei suspicions even to illogical conclusions.

Then came private equity firm buyouts and the secusitizing of those totally illogical transactions.

Creationism is a load of illogical bunk with no basis in anything other than the.

He makes the illogical deception amusing and tolerable.

It is illogical that making the knife accountable to the crime.

Dodgson found the radical new math illogical and lacking in intellectual rigor.

The highly illogical car market is not only unduly influenced by style, it is also beholden to the vagaries of snob appeal.

It's illogical to count a test score if it is high but ignore it if it is low.

So it may be best to tack in the opposite direction, with a description that is no less accurate for seeming completely illogical.

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World English Dictionary

illogical (ɪˈlɒdʒɪk^əl)

—*adj*
1.	characterized by lack of logic; senseless or unreasonable
2.	disregarding logical principles

illogicality

—n

il'logicalness

—n

il'logically

—*adv*

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