alogical

Examples

• All

• The alogical sequence of events in her story left everyone confused.

• In a dream, thoughts often flow in an alogical manner that defies reason.

• He maintains the paradoxical, alogical nature of the relationship and stresses the provisional quality of meaning.

  Academic text (1990)

• They are not necessarily illogical or irrational, but alogical, arational, real but outside of systems of logic and ordinary rationality.

  Academic text (1993)

• As Arthur Koestler maintains in The Act of Creation, "the creative act ... always operates on more than one plane" (35), so that discovery often requires a sudden alogical shift from one matrix to another, affording a wholly new angle of vision.

  Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

I

irrational

vsalogical

192 4.4

Not based on clear reason or thinking

emphasizes missing logical reasoning without implying emotional causes

I

illogical

vsalogical

43 4.8

Does not make sense or follow clear reasons

is about lacking logical reasoning rather than being explicitly nonsensical

N

nonlogical

vsalogical

1 7.9

Not using clear or correct reasons

is the same lack of reasoning but used more for processes

U

unlogical

vsalogical

8.6

Not having clear reasons or facts

focuses on not following logical reasoning rather than technical principles

P

paralogistic

vsalogical

• Specialized

9.9

Based on wrong thinking that leads to false conclusions

means simply lacking logical reasoning rather than relying on bad logic

Antonyms

L

logical

100 3.9

Able to think clearly and make good choices

How Logical

logical

307 3.8

rational

382 3.8

alogical

9.9

irrational

192 4.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology