All 7 Uses of
irrational
in
Cujo
- She was suddenly, irrationally afraid that she would not recognize Holly.†
*irrationally = in a manner that is not reasonable
- As he lay down he glanced at the telephone and felt a sudden irrational urge to call home.†
irrational = unreasonable
- Irrational?†
- She felt the old, helpless terror that she had almost completely forgotten as parents do the alarms and the excursions of their children's early years: the teething, the vaccination that brought the frighteningly high fever as a little extra added attraction, the croup, the car infection, the hand or leg that suddenly began to spray irrational blood.†
- That strange and jealous part of his mind — he hadn't even been aware of that part in him until that afternoon in Deering Oaks — had an answer for everything, and in the dark it didn't seem to matter that most of the answers were irrational.†
- Bran flakes in cream with a sprinkle of blueberries on top — bloobies, her father had always called them, another one of those comic irrationalities that had irritated her mother out of all proportion.†
irrationalities = actions or beliefs that are not reasonable
- Donna felt that irrational lift in her spirits that almost always comes with daybreak.†
irrational = unreasonable
Definitions:
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(1)
(irrational) not reasonable
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, irrational numbers in mathematics are numbers that cannot be expressed as a fraction consisting of only an integer in the numerator and denominator. For example, pi is an irrational number while 1/3 is rational.