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To present participles which come from intransitive verbs, or are themselves employed as adjectives, to mark the absence of the activity, disposition, or condition implied by the participle;
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Not reasonable; irrational; immoderate; exorbitant.
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not reasonable; not showing good judgment
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pungent adjectives of disesteem; "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books"
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absurd and inappropriate; "the unreasonable nimbus of romance with which she had encircled that man"- Thomas Hardy
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inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman
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