unconscionable

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: un=con=scion=a=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

unconscionable, a. 

•  Not conscionable; exceeding the limits of any reasonable claim or expectation; not conforming to reason; unreasonable; inordinate; extravagant; as, an unconscionable person or demand; unconscionable size.  [1913 Webster]

  "Which use of reason, most reasonless and unconscionable, is the utmost that any tyrant ever pretended."  [1913 Webster]

  "His giantship is gone somewhat crestfallen,
  Stalking with less unconscionable strides."  [1913 Webster]
•  Not guided by, or conformed to, conscience; that cannot be done in good conscience; as, unconscionable profits.  [1913 Webster]

  "Ungenerous as well as unconscionable practices."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

unconscionable, adj.
1 a having no conscience. b contrary to conscience.
2 a unreasonably excessive (an unconscionable length of time). b not right or reasonable.

Derivative

unconscionableness n. unconscionably adv.

Etymology

UN-(1) + obs. conscionable f. conscions obs. var. of CONSCIENCE

THESAURUS

unconscionable

a bit much, abandoned, absolute, acute, amoral, arrant, barbarous, boundless, classical, complete, conscienceless, consummate, corrupt, corrupted, crass, criminal, crooked, cutthroat, cutting, dark, decided, definitive, devious, dishonest, dishonorable, dizzy, doubtful, downright, drastic, dubious, egregious, enormous, evasive, evil, exacting, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, felonious, fierce, fishy, flagrant, fraudulent, furious, gigantic, glaring, gluttonous, gouging, great, gross, grossly overpriced, high, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, ill-got, ill-gotten, immoderate, immoral, incontinent, indefensible, indirect, inexcusable, inexpiable, inflationary, inordinate, insidious, intemperate, intense, intolerable, irremissible, keen, monstrous, not kosher, out of bounds, out of sight, out-and-out, outrageous, outright, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge, overmuch, overpriced, overweening, perfect, piercing, positive, precious, preposterous, profound, prohibitive, pronounced, proper, questionable, rank, regular, rigorous, rotten, rough, severe, shady, shameless, sharp, shattering, shifty, shocking, sinister, skyrocketing, slippery, spiraling, splitting, stark, stark-staring, steep, stick-at-nothing, stiff, superlative, surpassing, suspicious, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing, too much, total, tough, towering, tricky, unallowable, unbearable, unbridled, unchristian, uncivilized, unconscienced, unconscientious, undeniable, underhand, underhanded, undue, unequivocal, unethical, unforgivable, ungodly, unholy, unjust, unjustifiable, unmeasurable, unmitigated, unpardonable, unprincipled, unqualified, unreasonable, unrelieved, unrestrained, unsavory, unscrupulous, unspoiled, unstraightforward, unwarrantable, unwarranted, usurious, utter, vehement, venomous, violent, virulent, wicked, without remorse, without shame

ROGET THESAURUS

unconscionable

Greatness

N greatness, magnitude, size, multitude, immensity, enormity, infinity, might, strength, intensity, fullness, importance, great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world, mass, heap, stock, peck, bushel, load, cargo, cartload, wagonload, shipload, flood, spring tide, abundance, principal part, chief part, main part, greater part, major part, best part, essential part, bulk, mass, great, greater, large, considerable, fair, above par, big, huge, Herculean, cyclopean, ample, abundant, full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy, plenary, deep, high, signal, at its height, in the zenith, world-wide, widespread, far-famed, extensive, wholesale, many, goodly, noble, precious, mighty, sad, grave, heavy, serious, far gone, arrant, downright, utter, uttermost, crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate, rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate, glaring, flagrant, stark staring, thorough-paced, thoroughgoing, roaring, thumping, extraordinary, important, unsurpassed, complete, august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic, vast, immense, enormous, extreme, inordinate, excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous, overgrown, towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible, marvelous, unlimited, unapproachable, unutterable, indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, inexpressible, beyond expression, fabulous, undiminished, unabated, unreduced, unrestricted, absolute, positive, stark, decided, unequivocal, essential, perfect, finished, remarkable, of mark, marked, pointed, veriest, noteworthy, renowned, truly, decidedly, unequivocally, purely, absolutely, seriously, essentially, fundamentally, radically, downright, in all conscience, for the most part, in the main, entirely, abundantly, widely, far and wide, greatly, much, muckle, well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little, pretty, pretty well, enough, in a great measure, richly, to a large extent, to a great extent, to a gigantic extent, on a large scale, so, never so, ever so, ever so dole, scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much, by wholesale, mighty, powerfully, with a witness, ultra, in the extreme, extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely, immeasurably, beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds, incalculably, infinitely, preeminently, superlatively, immoderately, monstrously, preposterously, inordinately, exorbitantly, excessively, enormously, out of all proportion, with a vengeance, particularly, remarkably, singularly, curiously, uncommonly, unusually, peculiarly, notably, signally, strikingly, pointedly, mainly, chiefly, famously, egregiously, prominently, glaringly, emphatically, kat exochin, strangely, wonderfully, amazingly, surprisingly, astonishingly, incredibly, marvelously, awfully, stupendously, peculiarly, furiously, severely, desperately, tremendously, extravagantly, confoundedly, deucedly, devilishly, with a vengeance, a outrance, a toute outrance, painfully, sadly, grossly, sorely, bitterly, piteously, grievously, miserably, cruelly, woefully, lamentably, shockingly, frightfully, dreadfully, fearfully, terribly, horribly, a maximis ad minima, greatness knows itself, mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed, minimum decet libere cui multum licet, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Vice

N vice, evil-doing, evil courses, wrongdoing, wickedness, viciousness, iniquity, peccability, demerit, sin, Adam, old Adam, offending Adam, immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals, enphagy, dophagy, exophagy, want of principle, want of ballast, obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution, hardness of heart, brutality, corruption, knavery, profligacy, flagrancy, atrocity, cannibalism, lesbianism, Sadism, infirmity, weakness, weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection, error, weak side, foible, failing, failure, crying sin, besetting sin, defect, deficiency, cloven foot, lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den, gusto picaresco, fault, crime, criminality, sinner, brothel, gambling house, joint, opium den, shooting gallery, crack house, vicious, sinful, sinning, wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal, naughty, incorrect, unduteous, undutiful, unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper, dissolute, profligate, scampish, unworthy, worthless, desertless, disgraceful, recreant, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, discreditable, disreputable, Sadistic, base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous, flagrant, flagitious, atrocious, incarnate, accursed, Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish, miscreated, misbegotten, demoralized, corrupt, depraved, evil-minded, evil-disposed, ill-conditioned, malevolent, heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless, abandoned, lost to virtue, unconscionable, sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity, incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for, culpable, reprehensible, unjustifiable, indefensible, inexcusable, inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible, weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect, indiscrete, demoralizing, degrading, wrong, sinfully, without excuse, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, alitur vitium vivitque tegendo, genus est mortis male vivere, mala mens malus animus, nemo repente fuit turpissimus, the trail of the serpent is over them all, to sanction vice and hunt decorum down.