Synonyms for rational
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : rash-uh-nl, rash-nl |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈræʃ ə nl, ˈræʃ nl |
Top 10 synonyms for rational
- all there
- calm
- cerebral
- circumspect
- cognitive
- collected
- cool
- deductive
- discerning
- discriminating
- far-sighted
- intellectual
- knowing
- normal
- objective
- perspicacious
- philosophic
- prudent
- ratiocinative
- reasonable
- reasoning
- reflective
- sagacious
- sane
- sensible
- sober
- sound
- stable
- synthetic
- thinking
- thoughtful
- together
- well-advised
- wise
Définition of rational
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).
- adj realistic; of sound mind
- He is one of the few foreigners who expect a rational answer.
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Every rational luxury is to be procured in England by such an income.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- Times have changed, and now I enter Calais self-reliant and rational.
- Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
- The commander did what he could to bring me to a rational state of mind.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- And don't trust him at any time; for when he seems most rational, he's wildest in his talk.
- Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
- Be rational, and just, and calm, and tell me whose idea was that.'
- Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
- Something he can learn from this man, something from that, and it is rational to learn and be taught.
- Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore
- The higher comes first, then the lower, first the human and rational, afterwards the animal.
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- And this, surely, must be the work of the calculating and rational principle in the soul?
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- Man is to bring himself back as far as he is able to the condition of a rational beast.
- Extract from : « Theaetetus » by Plato
Antonyms for rational
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