Definition of reasons Reasons
/ɹiˈzʌnz/ - [reezunz] -
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Wiktionary 
- reasons (Noun)
Plural of reason.
Part of speech
🔤WordNet
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| reason - a rational motive for a belief or action; "the reason that war was declared"; "the grounds for their declaration" | ||
| ground | ||
| rational motive a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argument | ||
| occasion reason; "there was no occasion for complaint" | ||
| account, score the quality of taking advantage; "she turned her writing skills to good account" | ||
| reason - the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil" | ||
| understanding, intellect | ||
| mental faculty, faculty, module one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind | ||
| reason - a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion; "there is reason to believe he is lying" | ||
| fact a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred; "first you must collect all the facts of the case" | ||
| indication something (as a course of action) that is indicated as expedient or necessary; "there were indications that it was time to leave" | ||
| reason - an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon; "the reason a steady state was never reached was that the back pressure built up too slowly" | ||
| reason - the state of having good sense and sound judgment; "his rationality may have been impaired"; "he had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions" | ||
| rationality, reasonableness | ||
| saneness, sanity normal or sound powers of mind | ||
| reason - a justification for something existing or happening; "he had no cause to complain"; "they had good reason to rejoice" | ||
| cause, grounds | ||
| justification the act of defending or explaining or making excuses for by reasoning; "the justification of barbarous means by holy ends"- H.J.Muller | ||
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| reason - decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion; "We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house" | ||
| reason out, conclude | ||
| cerebrate, cogitate, think consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind | ||
| induce reason or establish by induction | ||
| deduce, deduct, derive, infer reason by deduction; establish by deduction | ||
| syllogise, syllogize reason by syllogisms | ||
| feel, find be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state; "My cold is gone--I feel fine today"; "She felt tired after the long hike"; "She felt sad after her loss" | ||
| deduce, infer reason by deduction; establish by deduction | ||
| gather conclude from evidence; "I gather you have not done your homework" | ||
| extrapolate, generalise, generalize, infer gain knowledge of (an area not known or experienced) by extrapolating | ||
| reason - think logically; "The children must learn to reason" | ||
| cerebrate, cogitate, think consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind | ||
| rationalise away, rationalize away substitute a natural for a supernatural explanation of; "you can rationalize away all the strange noises you hear--there is no poltergeist in the house!" | ||
| theorize form or construct theories; "he thinks and theorizes all day" | ||
| theorize form or construct theories; "he thinks and theorizes all day" | ||
| ratiocinate reason methodologically and logically | ||
| compute, cipher, cypher, figure, calculate, reckon, work out understand; "He didn't figure her" | ||
| categorise, categorize place into or assign to a category; "Children learn early on to categorize" | ||
| speculate to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps" | ||
| reason - present reasons and arguments | ||
| argue | ||
| lay out, present, represent provide a detailed plan or design; "She laid out her plans for the new house" | ||
| re-argue argue again; "This politician will be forced into re-arguing an old national campaign" | ||
| expostulate reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion | ||
| fend for, defend, support argue or speak in defense of; "She supported the motion to strike" | ||
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Wiktionary
- reason (Noun)
A cause. - reason (Noun)
That which causes something: an efficient cause , a proximate cause . - reason (Noun)
The reason this tree fell is that it had rotted. - reason (Noun)
1996, Daniel Clement Dennett, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, page 19. - reason (Noun)
There is a reason why so many should be symmetrical: The selective advantage in a symmetrical complex is enjoyed by all the subunits... - reason (Noun)
A motive for an action or a determination. - reason (Noun)
The reason I robbed the bank was that I needed the money. - reason (Noun)
If you don't give me a reason to go with you, I won't. - reason (Noun)
1806, Anonymous, Select Notes to Book XXI, in, Alexander Pope , translator, The Odyssey of Homer, volume 6 London, F. J. du Roveray, page 3. - reason (Noun)
This is the reason why he proposes to offer a libation, to atone for the abuse of the day by their diversions. - reason (Noun)
1881, Henry James , Portrait of a The Portrait of a Lady , chapter 1. - reason (Noun)
Ralph Touchett, for reasons best known to himself, had seen fit to say that Gilbert Osmond was not a good fellow... - reason (Noun)
An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation. - reason (Noun)
1966, Graham Greene , Comedians The Comedians Penguin Classics edition, ISBN 0140184945, page 1. - reason (Noun)
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. - reason (Noun)
Rational thinking or the capacity for it; the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition. - reason (Noun)
Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice. - reason (Noun)
ratio; proportion. - reason (Verb)
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. - reason (Verb)
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. - reason (Verb)
To converse; to compare opinions. - reason (Verb)
To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss. - reason (Verb)
To support with reasons, as a request. - reason (Verb)
To persuade by reasoning or argument. - reason (Verb)
To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons. - reason (Verb)
To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- reason (n.)
A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation; the efficient cause of an occurrence or a phenomenon; a motive for an action or a determination; proof, more or less decisive, for an opinion or a conclusion; principle; efficient cause; final cause; ground of argument. - reason (n.)
The faculty or capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals; the higher as distinguished from the lower cognitive faculties, sense, imagination, and memory, and in contrast to the feelings and desires. Reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional faculty. Specifically, it is the intuitional faculty, or the faculty of first truths, as distinguished from the understanding, which is called the discursive or ratiocinative faculty. - reason (n.)
Due exercise of the reasoning faculty; accordance with, or that which is accordant with and ratified by, the mind rightly exercised; right intellectual judgment; clear and fair deductions from true principles; that which is dictated or supported by the common sense of mankind; right conduct; right; propriety; justice. - reason (n.)
Ratio; proportion. - reason (n.)
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. - reason (n.)
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. - reason (n.)
To converse; to compare opinions. - reason (v. t.)
To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss; as, I reasoned the matter with my friend. - reason (v. t.)
To support with reasons, as a request. - reason (v. t.)
To persuade by reasoning or argument; as, to reason one into a belief; to reason one out of his plan. - reason (v. t.)
To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons; -- with down; as, to reason down a passion. - reason (v. t.)
To find by logical processes; to explain or justify by reason or argument; -- usually with out; as, to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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The ability for rational thought. -
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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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A fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion. -
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A justification for something existing or happening.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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rē′zn, n. an idea which supports or justifies an act or belief: a motive: proof: excuse: cause: an explanation: the faculty of the mind by which man draws conclusions, and determines right and truth: the exercise of reason: just view of things: right conduct: propriety: justice: that which is conformable to reason: (logic) a premise placed after its conclusion.—v.i. to exercise the faculty of reason: to deduce inferences from premises: to argue: to debate: (B.) to converse.—v.t. to examine or discuss: to debate: to persuade by reasoning.—adj. Rea′sonable, endowed with reason: rational: acting according to reason: agreeable to reason: just: not excessive: moderate.—n. Rea′sonableness.—adv. Rea′sonably.—ns. Rea′soner; Rea′soning, act of reasoning: that which is offered in argument: course of argument.—adj. Rea′sonless.—n. Rea′son-piece, a wall plate.—By reason of, on account of: in consequence of; Principle of sufficient reason, the proposition that nothing happens without a sufficient reason why it should be as it is and not otherwise; Pure reason, reason absolutely independent of experience. [Fr. raison—L. ratio, rationis—rēri, ratus, to think.]
Proverbs DictionaryProverbs Dictionary 📗
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There's reason in roasting of eggs.
Wikipedia 
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Reason or reasoning is a way of thinking that uses logic and facts. Reason tries to learn what is true or best. It is the opposite of using feelings and emotions. In common English, it is using your head instead of your heart.
Reason has been an important part of philosophy since Ancient Greece. Many philosophers have thought about what reason is, how to think using reason (Logic), if religious thinking and faith are ways of reasoning, what we can know if we only use reason (Epistemology), and if animals or computers can think using reason.
