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Grammar : Adv
Spell : rash-uh-nl, rash-nl
Phonetic Transcription : ˈræʃ ə nl, ˈræʃ nl



Definition of rationally

Origin :
  • late 14c., "pertaining to reason;" mid-15c., "endowed with reason," from Old French racionel and directly from Latin rationalis "of or belonging to reason, reasonable," from ratio (genitive rationis) "reckoning, calculation, reason" (see ratio).
  • adv sensibly
Example sentences :
  • His worthy brother, the Major, might have been as rationally suspected.
  • Extract from : « The Group » by Mercy Warren
  • They acted "instinctively," or automatically, not rationally.
  • Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
  • All I have to ask is that we talk reasonably and rationally about it.
  • Extract from : « The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Three » by Abraham Lincoln
  • To a man there is but one choice that he can rationally make, a marriage of love.
  • Extract from : « The Ladies Book of Useful Information » by Anonymous
  • Outside of America there are no cars that are so rationally devised.
  • Extract from : « Following the Equator, Complete » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • The number of the rationally conscientious is as small as is that of the convivial.
  • Extract from : « Quaker Hill » by Warren H. Wilson
  • The only Eugenist that could rationally attack him must be a man of no woman born.
  • Extract from : « Eugenics and Other Evils » by G. K. Chesterton
  • The time when I seem to be most rationally employed is when I am reading.
  • Extract from : « The Works of William Cowper » by William Cowper
  • I have known some who have been rationally educated, as it is styled.
  • Extract from : « Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. I (of 2) » by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • It really will be too great happiness; I never can think of it coolly or rationally.
  • Extract from : « Up the Country » by Emily Eden

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