Definitions for rational

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rational ra·tion·al

Spelling: [rash-uh-nl, rash-nl]

IPA: /ˈræʃ ə nl, ˈræʃ nl/

Rational is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 319 anagrams from letters in rational (aailnort).

Definitions for rational

noun

1. Mathematics. rational number.

adjective

1. agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible:
2. having or exercising reason, sound judgment, or good sense:
3. being in or characterized by full possession of one's reason; sane; lucid:
4. endowed with the faculty of reason:
5. of, relating to, or constituting reasoning powers:
6. proceeding or derived from reason or based on reasoning:
7. Mathematics. capable of being expressed exactly by a ratio of two integers. (of a function) capable of being expressed exactly by a ratio of two polynomials.
8. Classical Prosody. capable of measurement in terms of the metrical unit or mora.

Origin of rational

1350-1400; Middle English racional Latin ratiōnālis, equivalent to ratiōn- (stem of ratiō) reason + -ālis -al¹

Examples for rational

The commander did what he could to bring me to a rational state of mind.

And, as noted with victim blaming, this undermines men as thinking, rational, conscious beings.

First, laws that treat people differently from one another without a rational justification are unconstitutional.

Of course, this call for hip-hop artists to speak out comes from a completely sincere and rational place.

Times have changed, and now I enter Calais self-reliant and rational.

We should know by now that a rational argument never can touch an affair of the heart.

Every rational luxury is to be procured in England by such an income.

He is one of the few foreigners who expect a rational answer.

Be rational, and just, and calm, and tell me whose idea was that.'

Reactionary movements are, first and foremost, not rational.