illogical
/ɪˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)l
/adjective
Lacking sense or clear, sound reasoning: an illogical fear of the supernatural...
- You don't give me advice about my rubbish and ultimately illogical sense of humour, so I should just leave you alone.
- Stupid, illogical things that seemed a good idea at the time, but you just can't explain to the judge afterwards.
- A man must not seek to compel his son to love him for it may be impossible for a thousand illogical impulses.
Synonyms
irrational, unreasonable, unsound, unreasoned, unfounded, groundless, unjustifiable, unjustified;
incorrect, erroneous, wrong, invalid, spurious, faulty, flawed, fallacious, unscientific, inconsistent, unproved;
specious, sophistic, casuistic;
absurd, preposterous, untenable, implausible, impossible, beyond belief, beyond the bounds of possibility;
senseless, meaningless, nonsensical, insane, ridiculous, idiotic, stupid, foolish, silly, inane, imbecilic
informal crazy, off beam, way out, full of holes
British informal daft, barmy
Derivatives
illogicality
/ noun (plural illogicalities) ...- The illogicalities of her train of thought were set off by my own routine.
- It's more about the illogicality of suffering and how inexplicable that is and how we fight against it in all our lives, whether it's cancer or whatever.
- There is a striking illogicality if you share our desire to see Scotland's economy grow but become very uneasy to learn that a Scottish company is doing exceptionally well.
illogically
/ adverb ...- They don't want to criticize a big corporation for manipulating the political process, so they quite illogically place all the blame on Davis.
- The centre is certainly not a dominating feature of the lives of residents of Kew Riverside but it does rather stand out as being illogically located.
- But I find that their panacea to all the country's problems revolves around increased public spending and, illogically, reduced taxation, all brought about by cost savings.
Rhymes
- spearfish
- speargrass
- speargun
- spearhead
- spear-like
- spearman
- Spearman's rank correlation
- spearmint
- spear phishing
- spear-thrower
- spearwort
- spec
- speccy
- special
- special adviser
- special advisor
- special agent
- Special Air Service
- special area
- Special Boat Service
- Special Branch
- special buyer
- special care baby unit
- special care unit
- special case