Crossword-Solution: REASON 6 letters, 205 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word	Word Type	Definition
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.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
REASON	anagram	ARSENO, ASNORE, ERANOS, SENORA, SONARE, SONEAR

We have 205 clues for the answer “REASON”

Clue	Answers
"Because I said so" is not one	1 answer
"Because I said so," e.g.	1 answer
"Because," to a kid	1 answer
"Give Me One ___" (Tracy Chapman song)	1 answer
"Give me one good ___"	1 answer
"Neither rhyme nor ___." Comedy of Errors.	1 answer
"Prejudices are what fools use for ___": Voltaire	1 answer
"The Age of ___"	1 answer
"The natural organ of truth": C. S. Lewis	1 answer
"Theirs not to ___ why"	1 answer
"___ to Believe": Rod Stewart	1 answer
A rational motive	1 answer
Argue rationally.	1 answer
CS Lewis' "natural organ of truth"	1 answer
Cause fall in LA when turning head to right?	1 answer
Cause, justification	1 answer
Cause; motive	1 answer
Companion of "rhyme."	1 answer
Feature of Paine's age.	1 answer
Ground or cause.	1 answer
Human faculty	1 answer
IMPELLING force	1 answer
It may be hard to listen to	1 answer
It may begin with "Because . . ."	1 answer
Left brain's forte, supposedly	1 answer
Logic behind a decision	1 answer
Logician's asset	1 answer
Logician's need	1 answer
Logicize	1 answer
Motive for action	1 answer
Mr. Spock's logic	1 answer
No rhyme or __	1 answer
Paine's "The Age of ___"	1 answer
Rhyme alternative	1 answer
Rhyme or ___	1 answer
Rhyme partner	1 answer
Rhyme's mate	1 answer
Right thinking.	1 answer
Sound judgment (end of #2)	1 answer
Subject of Kant critique	1 answer
Subject of a Kant critique	1 answer
THINK logically	1 answer
Talk persuasively.	1 answer
The ability to think.	1 answer
The underlying cause	1 answer
Think in a logical manner	1 answer
Think it through	1 answer
Use your bean	1 answer
What "Why?" tries to uncover	1 answer
What Kant critiqued	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

RETAE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Unscramble REASON 6-letter words that start with R 6-letter words that end in N 6-letter words containing EA 6-letter words containing ON 6-letter words with R and E

Sentences with REASON (5)

Not free, what proof could they have givn sincere Of true allegiance, constant Faith or Love, Where onely what they needs must do, appeard, Not what they would? what praise could they receive? What pleasure I from such obedience paid, When Will and Reason (Reason also is choice) Useless and vain, of freedom both despoild, Made passive both, had servd necessitie, Not mee.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

One of them, turning about, said to him: “That is the very reason why we are so cautious; for if you yesterday treated us better than the Goats you have had so long, it is plain also that if others came after us, you would in the same manner prefer them to ourselves.” Old friends cannot with impunity be sacrificed for new ones.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

Our reason for taking the water route was, that we were less liable to be suspected as runaways; we hoped to be regarded as fishermen; whereas, if we should take the land route, we should be subjected to interruptions of almost every kind.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

Even its position terrestrially is one of the elements of a new interest, and for no particular reason save that the incident of the night had occurred there, Oak went again into the plantation.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

They are as little children, and for that reason they will for ever find a home in the heaven of little children’s souls.

The Fables of Aesop Aesop 1992

Quotes with REASON (3)

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Paulo Coelho The Alchemist

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their…

Louise Erdrich The Painted Drum

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 146 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).