adjective
definition
Contrary to logic; lacking sense or sound reasoning.
example
I received an illogical reply and that left me standing there feeling confused.
synonyms
Examples of illogical in a Sentence
It was an illogical thought, but her mind was beyond logic.
He was shocked to learn such illogical feelings could persist after such a long time.
Well, this ' bigger is better ' thing is completely illogical.
Not being feminist to me is just totally illogical.
However the folks who codify the roads decided to be somewhat illogical here in their coding system.
Worse still, the New York Post lamented that it ' devolves into a best-forgotten clone of an utterly illogical X-Files episode ' .
During this stage, three-fourths of schizophrenics experience delusions, illogical and bizarre beliefs that are held despite objections.
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.
The new biotech is already subject to illogical, unscientific, excessive, regulation, but the activists demand more.
Therefore, it appears illogical not to require performance criteria for options to be included in the graph.
As is so often the case a battle won leaves another to fight and the situation is becoming ever more illogical.
You reproach us women with being illogical.
Shake, the catalyst in most of the shows hare-brained escapades, makes wild, illogical decisions and childish demands.
Barossa's Shiraz is generally full-bodied to begin with so it's illogical to expect a lightweight red from them anyway.
The end of ethical endeavour is the conclusion that all endeavour is vain and illogical.
But the received conjectures which make this text acceptable have no more authority in themselves than equally good conjectures which have not yet won their way into the text, and it is clearly illogical to treat a text largely built upon conjectures as if it were now beyond the reach of conjecture.
Yet positive repudiation is very rare though compromises are not uncommon, and a good many illogical arrangements are made that imply forbearance and amity.
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.
That is Gnosticism; but it is at the same time illogical.
Support for football teams - being a male thing - is an entirely illogical phenomenon.
Consequently, it seems illogical to bring my studying of the subject to such an abrupt end.
A pretty standard example of early Blake, its plotting is rather slapdash and illogical with much padding and too many coincidences.
Illogical skeptics will complain that any hypothesis can be induced in this framework, such as a giant purple unicorns or flying cats.
Descartes, the founder of psychological idealism, having proceeded from the conscious fact, cogito ergo sum, to the non sequitur that I am a soul, and all a soul can perceive is its ideas, nevertheless went on to the further illogical conclusion that from these mental ideas I can (by the grace of God) infer things which are extended substances or bodies, as well as thinking substances or souls.
Even the detractors who defend her conduct on the plea that she was a dastard and a dupe are compelled in the same breath to retract this implied reproach, and to admit, with illogical acclamation and incongruous applause, that the world never saw more splendid courage at the service of more brilliant intelligence, that a braver if not "a rarer spirit never did steer humanity."
Professional tradition and an astute perception on their part of the omniscience suggested by the terms, have left the medical men in Englishspeaking lands in undisturbed but illogical possession of the words physiology, physic and physician.
A code of instructions for the guidance of church courts when engaged in cases of discipline is in general use, and bears witness to the extreme care taken not only to have things done decently and in order, but also to prevent hasty, impulsive and illogical procedure in the investigation of charges of heresy or immorality.
Their position in the Hebrew Bible before the book of Chronicles is, however, illogical.
But as by the admission of both logicians these reconstructions of Darapti are illogical, it follows that their respective reductions of categorical universals to existentials and hypotheticals are false, because they do not explain an actual inference.
However, we have also seen quite illogical examples of where the state thinks it knows best.
The only illogical point in his system is that the beauty of his dreamlike chords depends not only on his artful choice of a timbre that minimizes their harshness, but also on the fact that they enter the ear with the meaning they have acquired through centuries of harmonic evolution on classical lines.
Since these combinations have often been as illogical as facile, "eclecticism" has generally acquired a somewhat contemptuous significance.
This being so, it is wholly illogical to seek for any test of the truth and reality of either except in the form which that relation itself takes.
Their position was so illogical that it was easily turned into metaphysical idealism.
He helped to defeat the proposal to give Congress a veto on state legislation, showing that it was illogical to confer such a power, since the constitution itself is the law of the land and no state act contravening it is legal.
Such a comparison is necessarily illogical, as the existing apes are separated from the common ancestor by at least as large a number of generations as separate it from any of the forms of existing man.
The partial use of English (with illogical limitations to the detriment of the Maltese-born British subjects who speak English) was introduced by local ordinances and orders in council at the end of the 19th century.
Would Dean ever make such irrational and illogical decisions if faced with a test of his love?
Instead, the trail was an illogical hodgepodge of unrelated sequences that had skipped forward until evaporating someplace west of Hays, Kansas.
That illogical, immature holdout still blamed him for winning her love before he told her.