Synonyms for rationally

Grammar : Adv

Spell : rash-uh-nl, rash-nl

Phonetic Transcription : ˈræʃ ə nl, ˈræʃ nl

Définition 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

Antonyms for rationally

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