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# unreasonable

«unreasonable» in Mova's school dictionary: **Not fair or sensible; asking for more than is right or fair** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unreasonable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unreasonable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.