reason meaning
EN
[ˈɹiːzən] [-iːzən] 
US WReason
- Reason is the capacity for consciously making sense of things, applying logic, establishing and verifying facts, and changing or justifying practices, institutions, and beliefs based on new or existing information.
- Reason or "reasoning" is associated with thinking, cognition, and intellect. Reason, like habit or intuition, is one of the ways by which thinking comes from one idea to a related idea.
- In contrast to reason as an abstract noun, a reason is a consideration which explains or justifies some event, phenomenon or behaviour. The field of logic studies ways in which human beings reason through argument.
- NounPLreasonsPREré-SUF-son
- A cause.
- The reason this tree fell is that it had rotted.
- The reason I robbed the bank was that I needed the money.
- If you don't give me a reason to go with you, I won't.
- I have forgotten the reason he gave for not travelling by air. I felt sure that it was not the correct reason, and that he suffered from a heart trouble which he kept to himself.
- NU Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.
- Mankind should develop reason above all other virtues.
- OBS Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.
- (mathematics) OBS Ratio; proportion.
- A cause.
- VerbSGreasonsPRreasoningPT, PPreasoned
- VI To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts.
- VI Hence: To carry on a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to formulate and set forth propositions and the inferences from them; to argue.
- VI To converse; to compare opinions.
- VT To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.
- I reasoned the matter with my friend.
- VT (rare) To support with reasons, as a request.
- VT To persuade by reasoning or argument.
- to reason one into a belief; to reason one out of his plan
- VT (with down) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
- to reason down a passion
- VT (usually with out) To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.
- to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon
- VI To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Future investigators and managers will be responsible for sorting out the various anthropogenic and nonanthropogenic factors to determine the reason for any change in transparency.
- Rayleigh scattering of sunlight in a clear atmosphere is the main reason why the sky is blue.
- It’s basically resistant to dirt, so there’s no reason to overclean it.”
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Reason away, but the test of time will prove me right.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Samoza has a long list of people who are personas non grata, and Figures suspects that I cannot get a visa to get into the country for this reason.
- the relatives who had been helping slipped away as I grew older, attriting for various reasons that all amounted to the same reason.
- After the laughter that was directed at him after his first tissy-fit, Mark started to tissy for a whole new reason.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of reason in English Dictionary
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- Singularia tantum
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "reason" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.