Irrational is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for IRRATIONAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an irrational number
• an irrational number or quantity; a surd.
• a real number that cannot be expressed as a rational number
ADJECTIVE:
• not rational
• not logical or reasonable
• not endowed with the power of reason.
• (of a number, quantity, or expression) not expressible as a ratio of two integers, and having an infinite and non-recurring expansion when expressed as a decimal. Examples of irrational numbers are the number Ï€ and the square root of 2.
• Not rational; void of reason or understanding; as, brutes are irrational animals.
• Not according to reason; absurd; foolish.
• Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd.
• not consistent with or using reason
• real but not expressible as the quotient of two integers
• (of a number, quantity, or expression) not expressible as a ratio of two integers, and having an infinite and non-recurring expansion when expressed as a decimal. Examples of irrational numbers are the number π and the square root of 2.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• not rational; as; not endowed with reason or understanding; lacking usual or normal mental clarity or coherence; not governed by or according to reason c Greek & Latin prosody (1) of a syllabl; having a quantity other than that required by the meter (2) of a foot; containing such a syllable d; being an irrational number; having a numerical value that is an irrational number

Words related to IRRATIONAL

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Words that contain IRRATIONAL

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How to use IRRATIONAL in a sentence

• Some scientists recognize such irrational possibilities.
• The excessive airs which those people give themselves, founded on the ignorance of us unmarried people, would be more offensive if they were less irrational.
• This step is taken by Deism, with the principle that whatever is not natural or rational in the sense indicated is unnatural and irrational.
• They are salutary for the irrational man, in so far as the one spurs him on to acts of assistance and the other diminishes his pride.
• He does not feel a faint irrational sense of debauch, after even divine pleasures of this life.
• Neither as they use it nor as we use it does it do anything but make nature look irrational and seem impossible.
• Our system deliberately turns a crowd of men who might be impartial into irrational partisans.
• She was feminine enough to experience an irrational jealousy at the idea of a vacancy which she had done her best to create.
• Honoria, he was irrational enough to want Patricia to dislike her, too.
• That was irrational, and Jack MacRae knew it was irrational.
• But of all the irrational desires or excesses the greatest is that which is led away by desires of a kindred nature to the enjoyment of personal beauty.
• Then the methods of payment are unfair, irrational and cumbersome.
• But as in rational creatures we find the likeness of image, so in irrational creatures we find the image of trace.
• And hence if Christ had had a soul without a mind, He would not have had true human flesh, but irrational flesh, since our soul differs from an animal soul by the mind alone.
• TWO PHILANTHROPIC SONS Two Boys sallied forth from a straggling Village in search of an irrational Female known as Dame Fortune.
• The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.
• The taking of prisoners had always been one of those irrational Terran customs which no Ulleran regarded with favor, or even comprehension.
• It will not die when the brains are out, and the most stupid and irrational errors are the longest-lived.
• Accordingly, he comprehends even the irrational world of the senses through a moral idea.
• Without such an element to overcome, the world would indeed be an inert and irrational affair.
• In what human fancy demands, as at present constituted, there are irrational elements.
• Reason would have nothing to do if it had no irrational materials.
• McDougall does not regret this disposition, irrational though it is.
• He believed it equally irrational to allow members of the party to consult personal preferences in voting.

Similar words containing RATION without suffix al and without prefix ir

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