Rationalising is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RATIONALISING in dictionary:

VERB (USED WITHOUT OBJECT) [RA·TION·AL·IZED, RA·TION·AL·IZ·ING.]:
• to invent plausible explanations for acts, opinions, etc., that are actually based on other causes: He tried to prove that he was not at fault, but he was obviously rationalizing.
• to employ reason; think in a rational or rationalistic manner.
VERB (USED WITH OBJECT) [RA·TION·AL·IZED, RA·TION·AL·IZ·ING.]:
• to ascribe (one's acts, opinions, etc.) to causes that superficially seem reasonable and valid but that actually are unrelated to the true, possibly unconscious and often less creditable or agreeable causes.
VERB (USED WITH OBJECT) [RA·TION·AL·IZED, RA·TION·AL·IZ·ING.]:
• to remove unreasonable elements from.
• to make rational or conformable to reason.
• to treat or explain in a rational or rationalistic manner.
• to eliminate radicals from (an equation or expression): to rationalize the denominator of a fraction.
• to reorganize and integrate (an industry).
VERB:
• RATIONALISE, to make rational, also RATIONALIZE
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• British variant of rationalize

Words related to RATIONALISING

rationalise11

Words that contain RATIONALISING

irrationalising16

How to use RATIONALISING in a sentence

• Much subsequent scepticism and rationalising philosophy will not avail to efface the vestiges of that early communion with familiar gods.
• It occupies the faculties without rationalising the life.

Similar words containing RATIONALIS without suffix ing

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