Sample Sentences forrational (editor-reviewed)
rational as in: rational behavior
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It's hard to think rationally when I'm this upset.rationally = in a reasonable manner
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In matters of the heart, I trust my intuition more than my rational analysis.rational = logical
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Let's try to ignore how upset we are for a moment and think about this rationally.rationally = in a reasonable manner
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There is certain to be a more rational explanation. (source)rational = reasonable
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The basic idea of science—that there was a new way to look at reality, that it was objective, that it did not depend on your beliefs or your nationality, that it was rational—that idea was fresh and exciting back then. (source)rational = based on logical analysis alone
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I should scream, like any rational human being would, but when I open my mouth again, I just crow with joy. (source)rational = reasonable
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Because you were strong and rational, and anyone could see that Shawn was not. (source)rational = reasonable
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We know we cannot rationally describe the kind of person we will fall in love with: (source)rationally = in a manner based on using reason rather than emotion
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Or because they believed that, emotions out of the way, supreme rationality would result, utter logic, true enlightenment.† (source)
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Rudolf Otto said that if you had not encountered the numinous, if you have not experienced a nonrational encounter with the mysterium tremendum, then his work was not for you.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in nonrational means not and reverses the meaning of rational. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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—yes, not even growing and developing, beloved by and loving light, but equipped only with that cunning, that inverted canker-growth of solitude which substitutes the omnivorous and unrational hearing-sense for all the others: so that instead of accomplishing the processional and measured milestones of the normal childhood's time I lurked, unapprehended as though, shod with the very damp and velvet silence of the womb, I displaced no air, gave off no betraying sound, from one closed forbidden door to the next and so acquired all I knew of that light and space in which people moved and breathed as I (that same child) might have gained conception of the sun from seeing it through a piece of s† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unrational means not and reverses the meaning of rational. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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She was a rational as you and I, more so perhaps, and we burned her. (source)rational = reasonable (of sound mind)
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I was so worried that I wasn't acting rationally.† (source)
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Our persona was opinionated to the point of absurdity, prejudiced beyond rationality, and functionally insane.† (source)
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Philosophical mysticism, the idea that truth is indefinable and can be apprehended only by nonrational means, has been with us since the beginning of history.† (source)
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The older boys agreed; but here and there among the little ones was the doubt that required more than rational assurance. (source)rational = logical
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