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# unreasonable

adjective

«unreasonable» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Not fair or sensible; asking for more than is right or fair. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unreasonable/#m1)

### In the lessons

In stories, a demand or a rule that is not fair; in lessons, an answer or a guess that does not make sense.

### Examples

- It is unreasonable to ask for three cakes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unreasonable/#x1)
- The king made an unreasonable demand. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unreasonable/#x2)
- Your answer of 900 is unreasonable for this problem. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unreasonable/#x3)

### Note

Nothing for maths; an unreasonable answer is one that is too big or too small to be right, but no count changes.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «unreasonable» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unreasonable/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«unreasonable» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/unreasonable.html) on Mova free.