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unreasoningly

unreasoningly adverb: without reasoning; blindly, thoughtlessly.

Adverb

unreasoningly (comparative more unreasoningly, superlative most unreasoningly)

  1. Without reasoning; blindly, thoughtlessly.
    • Be content with the knowledge that, ere the voyage had ended, both she and I were desperately and unreasoningly in love with one another.1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 10

Forms of unreasoningly

comparativemore unreasoningly
superlativemost unreasoningly

Origin of unreasoningly

From unreasoning + -ly.

Questions about unreasoningly

What does unreasoningly mean?
Unreasoningly means without reasoning; blindly, thoughtlessly.
What part of speech is unreasoningly?
Unreasoningly is an adverb.

Words near unreasoningly in the dictionary

  1. unreasonableness
  2. unreasonablenesses
  3. unreasonably
  4. unreasoned
  5. unreasoning
  6. unreasoningly
  7. unreasoningness
  8. unreasonnable
  9. unreasons
  10. unreassemblable
  11. unreassurable

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