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Another word for illogical

illogical Synonyms

illogical

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irrational, unreasonable, absurd, specious, fallacious, sophistical, inconsequent, unsubstantial, incorrect, inconsistent, false, flawed, casuistic, unscientific, paralogistic, contradictory, untenable, unsound, preposterous, invalid, self-contradictory, Kafkaesque, unproved, groundless, baseless, implausible, hollow, irrelevant, inconclusive, fatuous, senseless, incongruous, prejudiced, biased, unconnected, without foundation, not following, out of bounds, without basis, without rhyme or reason*, nutty*, screwy*, not ringing true*, wacky*, far out*, dopey*, having the cart before the horse*, Jesuitical*; see also fallible, wrong 2.

Antonyms sound, reasonable, logical*.

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Containing fundamental errors in reasoning:
fallacious, false, invalid, sophistic, specious, spurious, unsound. See correct, true
Not governed by or predicated on reason:
irrational, unreasonable, unreasoned. Idiom: out of bounds. See reason

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It was an illogical thought, but her mind was beyond logic.
- Meanwhile in England, Locke, though differing from Descartes about the origin of ideas, followed him in the illogical combination of psychological idealism with metaphysical realism.
This contingency explains the vacillating and illogical character of the papal diplomacy with regard to the Byzantine problem, and, inter slid, the opposition of Eugenius III.
Cleanthes and Philo come to an agreement, in admitting a certain illogical force in the a posteriori argument, or, at least, in expressing a conviction as to God's existence, which may not perhaps be altogether devoid of foundation.
Kant's position may be illogical as he himself 1 stated it; but it is the expression of a sound principle: we must connect it with his general tendency to recognize the dynamic side of things.

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