Sample sentences for ILLOGICAL

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Definition

not reasonable (not logical)

English is illogical. For example, if tongue is pronounced tung, why isn't argue pronounced arg.

illogical = not reasonable (not logical)

She remains stubbornly illogical on that subject.

illogical = unreasonable (not logical)

Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical, ill-considered criticism.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise

illogical = not reasonable

He has reached an illogical conclusion.
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

illogical = not reasonable

It is hardly my fault if his lordship's life and work have turned out today to look, at best, a sad waste - and it is quite illogical that I should feel any regret or shame on my own account.
Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains of the Day

illogical = unreasonable

It was no more logical or explicable than if, after you die, you find yet another surprise that is illogical and inexplicable.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
You reproach us women with being illogical.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
The raptors were closer, starting to move apart, and illogically she thought: Isn't this always the way?
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.
Tom Stoppard -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
I will do my level best to protect the United States under those strictures despite the fact that the situation is most illogical.
John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
"Illogical," Vittoria said.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
It's quite illogical and impossible and wonderful.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
When there was a slight lull, he said briefly to his companion: That it's illogical for a priest to call in a doctor.
Albert Camus -- The Plague
I gritted my teeth together to keep my illogical terror from showing.
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
My first illogical thought was that Alice was playing some joke on us.
Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
Not only was he carried away by possession of gold and assurance of more, but he had become masterful, obstinate, and illogical.
Zane Grey -- The Border Legion
He was the cause of all my agony, but I was so grateful to see Mahtob that I halfway meant the illogical statement.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
This may appear illogical, but I dare say it is not so illogical as it looks.
Ford Madox Ford -- The Good Soldier
For an illogical moment, I'd thought she might mean my brother.
Marie Lu -- Legend

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