Unreasonable
Meaning of Unreasonable
Not fair or sensible.
ما معنى كلمة Unreasonable بالعربي؟
غير معقول
🤯❌ غير معقول أو مفرط يتجاوز حدود المنطق والعقل ❌⚠️
قصة GL: اعتبر الأطباء طلب نايف العيسى لعلاج نفسه غير معقول، مفرط في التفاؤل، لكن النتائج أثبتت أن المعقول هو قدرة الدماغ اللامحدودة على التجدد عبر Genetic G Learning 🧠
Unreasonable in a sentence
Unreasonable demands strain participants.
Unreasonable prices lose customers.
Unreasonable terms may be void.
Unreasonable homework loads harm pupils.
Origin of Unreasonable
From un- + reasonable.
In the Genetic Learning (GL) context
In Genetic Learning work led by Naif Talal Al-Essa, unreasonable has a legal sense. GL contracts avoid unreasonable terms.
Unreasonable audio micro-course (transcript)
Podcast 1 — Introduction & meaning
Narrator: Today's word is "unreasonable" — an adjective, pronounced /ʌnˈriː.zən.ə.bəl/, with the stress on 'rea'.
Narrator: Unreasonable means not guided by good sense — unfair, excessive, or beyond what is acceptable or rational.
Narrator: In plain English, something unreasonable is over the top or unfair — an unreasonable demand, an unreasonable price.
Narrator: It can describe a person who won't listen to reason, or a thing that's simply too much — too costly, too demanding.
Narrator: The word combines 'un-', meaning not, with 'reasonable', from 'reason', via Latin 'ratio', meaning calculation or judgement.
Narrator: So at its core, unreasonable means lacking reason — not weighed by fair, sensible judgement.
Narrator: It is common in everyday disputes and in law, where a 'reasonable person' is a key standard of fairness.
Narrator: In tone it is everyday but firm — a measured way to call something unfair, excessive, or out of proportion.
Narrator: So remember: unreasonable means not guided by good sense — unfair, excessive, or beyond what's acceptable.
Read podcasts 2 and 3
Podcast 2 — In conversation
Speaker A: They want the whole project finished by Friday — honestly, that's a completely unreasonable deadline.
Speaker B: That does sound unreasonable — far too much to ask in so little time.
Speaker A: Exactly. And the price they quoted was unreasonable too — nearly double the going rate.
Speaker B: Right, there it means excessive. A common mistake is confusing 'unreasonable' with simply 'difficult'.
Speaker A: Ah — a difficult task is just hard, but an unreasonable one is unfair or excessive?
Speaker B: Exactly. Something can be difficult yet perfectly reasonable. Unreasonable adds that unfairness.
Speaker A: Good distinction. And it describes people too — 'he's being completely unreasonable'.
Speaker B: Yes — refusing to listen to sense. The opposite of fair-minded.
Speaker A: Close synonyms? 'Excessive', 'unfair', and 'irrational'.
Speaker B: Though 'irrational' suggests no logic at all, while 'unreasonable' is more about being unfair or over the top.
Speaker A: So unreasonable means unfair, excessive, or beyond sense.
Speaker B: More than is fair to ask.
Podcast 3 — Prompt engineering
Speaker B: Let's use "unreasonable" in AI prompts — it is precise for setting limits and validation: catching excessive values, rejecting unfair inputs, flagging anything out of acceptable bounds.
Speaker A: So unreasonable in a prompt means flag or reject values that are excessive or out of bounds?
Speaker B: Exactly. For validation, you'd write:
Prompt: Add validation that rejects unreasonable inputs in my booking form. Block unreasonable dates far in the past or future, and an unreasonable guest count over the room's limit, with a clear message explaining each limit.
Speaker B: The word unreasonable defines the rule by fairness — not just wrong, but beyond sensible bounds.
Speaker A: Very clear. What about rate limiting?
Speaker B: Try this:
Prompt: Protect my API from unreasonable usage. Set a fair rate limit per user, and block any client making an unreasonable number of requests per minute, returning a polite message rather than letting it overload the server.
Speaker A: So it guards against excess.
Speaker B: Right. For pricing:
Prompt: Add a sanity check that flags unreasonable prices before they save. If a product price is unreasonable — negative, zero, or wildly above the category average — warn the admin to confirm before publishing.
Speaker A: What about query limits?
Speaker B: Here you go:
Prompt: Stop unreasonable database queries in my reporting tool. Reject any request for an unreasonable date range, like ten years of data at once, and suggest a sensible smaller range to keep the report fast.
Speaker A: Could unreasonable guard file uploads too?
Speaker B: Yes:
Prompt: Validate uploads and block unreasonable files. Reject an unreasonable file size over the limit and unsupported types, with a friendly message telling the user the acceptable size and formats.
Speaker A: So "unreasonable" means excessive or out-of-bounds values to catch.
Speaker B: Exactly — a precise word that grounds limits and validation in fair, sensible bounds.
Frequently asked questions about Unreasonable
What does Unreasonable mean?
Not fair or sensible.
ما معنى كلمة Unreasonable بالعربي؟
غير معقول — 🤯❌ غير معقول أو مفرط يتجاوز حدود المنطق والعقل ❌⚠️
How do you pronounce Unreasonable?
Unreasonable is pronounced /ʌnˈriːznəbl/ and is used as an adjective.
How is Unreasonable used in a sentence?
Unreasonable demands strain participants.
What are synonyms of Unreasonable?
irrational, unfair, excessive, absurd, illogical, unjustified.