Irrational

  • 61irrational motive — noun a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic • Hypernyms: ↑motivation, ↑motive, ↑need • Hyponyms: ↑irrational impulse, ↑mania, ↑passion, ↑cacoethes, ↑compulsion …

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  • 62irrational — Synonyms and related words: abnormal, absonant, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, bereft of reason, bigoted, brainless, brainsick, cardinal, contradictory, contrary to reason, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, daft, decimal, deluded, demented …

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  • 63irrational — ịr|ra|ti|o|nal 〈Adj.〉 Ggs.: rational 1. mit dem Verstand nicht erfassbar 2. vernunftswidrig 3. unberechenbar 4. irrationale Zahl 〈Math.〉 Z., die weder ganze Zahl noch ein Quotient zweier ganzer Zahlen ist, z. B. √x [Etym.: <lat. irrationalis… …

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  • 64irrational — ir|ra|ti|o|nal [auch ... na:l] <aus lat. irrationalis »unvernünftig«; vgl. ↑Ratio>: a) mit der ↑Ratio, dem Verstand nicht fassbar, dem logischen Denken nicht zugänglich; b) vernunftwidrig; irrationale Zahlen: alle Zahlen, die sich nicht… …

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  • 65IRRATIONAL —    contrary to REASON …

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  • 66irrational — ir·ra·tion·al || ɪ ræʃənl adj. illogical, senseless, lacking reason, absurd …

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  • 67Irrational — a philosophy which claims that science is inferior to intuition, with art and the conquest of the aesthetic being the ultimate transcendence of the humanity …

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  • 68irrational — adjective 1》 not logical or reasonable. 2》 Mathematics (of a number or quantity) not expressible as a ratio of two integers (e.g. π). Derivatives irrationality noun irrationalize or irrationalise verb irrationally adverb …

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  • 69irrational — a. 1. Brutish, brute, void of reason, without reason. 2. Absurd, unreasonable, preposterous, foolish, silly, unwise; injudicious, extravagant. 3. Demented, alienated (in mind), crazy, lunatic, aberrant. 4. (Math.) Surd …

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  • 70irrational — adj 1. illogical, meaningless, preposterous, extravagant, unreasonable; incredible, inconceivable, unimaginable, unthinkable; invalid, unsound, unscientific, groundless, fallible; implausible, untenable; doubtful, doubtable, dubitable,… …

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