All 21 Uses of
rational
in
Emma
- He could not meet her in conversation, rational or playful.†
Chpt 1.1-2
- A straightforward, open-hearted man like Weston, and a rational, unaffected woman like Miss Taylor, may be safely left to manage their own concerns.†
Chpt 1.1-2
- I am much mistaken if Emma's doctrines give any strength of mind, or tend at all to make a girl adapt herself rationally to the varieties of her situation in life.†
Chpt 1.5-6
- I felt that, as to fortune, in all probability he might do much better; and that as to a rational companion or useful helpmate, he could not do worse.†
Chpt 1.7-8
- Elton may talk sentimentally, but he will act rationally.†
Chpt 1.7-8
- Mr. Woodhouse's peculiarities and fidgetiness were sometimes provoking him to a rational remonstrance or sharp retort equally ill-bestowed.†
Chpt 1.11-12
- With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.†
Chpt 1.13-14
- As he became rational, he ought to have roused himself and shaken off all that was unworthy in their authority.†
Chpt 1.17-18
- It was easy to decide that she was still too young; and Jane remained with them, sharing, as another daughter, in all the rational pleasures of an elegant society, and a judicious mixture of home and amusement, with only the drawback of the future, the sobering suggestions of her own good understanding to remind her that all this might soon be over.†
Chpt 2.1-2
- With the fortitude of a devoted novitiate, she had resolved at one-and-twenty to complete the sacrifice, and retire from all the pleasures of life, of rational intercourse, equal society, peace and hope, to penance and mortification for ever.†
Chpt 2.1-2
- It did not accord with the rationality of plan, the moderation in expense, or even the unselfish warmth of heart, which she had believed herself to discern in him yesterday.†
Chpt 2.7-8
- —Harriet rational, Frank Churchill not too much in love, and Mr. Knightley not wanting to quarrel with her, how very happy a summer must be before her!†
Chpt 3.3-4
- —However, now I will destroy it all—and it is my particular wish to do it in your presence, that you may see how rational I am grown.†
Chpt 3.3-4
- They, in their different homes, and their different ways, might be looking back on it with pleasure; but in her view it was a morning more completely misspent, more totally bare of rational satisfaction at the time, and more to be abhorred in recollection, than any she had ever passed.†
Chpt 3.7-8
- To take her—be it only an hour or two—from her aunt, to give her change of air and scene, and quiet rational conversation, even for an hour or two, might do her good; and the following morning she wrote again to say, in the most feeling language she could command, that she would call for her in the carriage at any hour that Jane would name—mentioning that she had Mr. Perry's decided opinion, in favour of such exercise for his patient.†
Chpt 3.9-10
- All that were good would be withdrawn; and if to these losses, the loss of Donwell were to be added, what would remain of cheerful or of rational society within their reach?†
Chpt 3.11-12
- …she was not able to refrain from a start, or a heavy sigh, or even from walking about the room for a few seconds—and the only source whence any thing like consolation or composure could be drawn, was in the resolution of her own better conduct, and the hope that, however inferior in spirit and gaiety might be the following and every future winter of her life to the past, it would yet find her more rational, more acquainted with herself, and leave her less to regret when it were gone.†
Chpt 3.11-12
- —I have been walking over the country, and am now, I hope, rational enough to make the rest of my letter what it ought to be.†
Chpt 3.13-14
- He knows he is wrong, and has nothing rational to urge.†
Chpt 3.15-16 *
- It was a union of the highest promise of felicity in itself, and without one real, rational difficulty to oppose or delay it.†
Chpt 3.17-18
- She was in dancing, singing, exclaiming spirits; and till she had moved about, and talked to herself, and laughed and reflected, she could be fit for nothing rational.†
Chpt 3.17-18
Definition:
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(rational as in: rational behavior) reasonablein various senses, including:
- "It's not rational to treat 2+2 as 5." -- logical as contrasted to illogical
- "I know you're upset, but please think about this in a rational manner." -- based on reason as contrasted to emotion
- "When I was 10-years-old, I wasn't very smart, but I was still rational." -- capable of using reason as contrasted to being insane or lacking the ability to reason
- "In matters of the heart, I trust my intuition more than my rational analysis." -- based on a logical analysis as contrasted to intuition, instinct, custom, tarot-card reading, or some other system of decision making