All 6 Uses of
rational
in
Cujo
- Eventually Vic and Roger had worn him down, but not with rational arguments.
*rational = based on reason
- Making ads was not a rational business.†
rational = reasonable
- In a world where parents get divorced, where older kids sometimes beat the shit out of you for no rational reason, where the rival Little League team sometimes racks the crap out of your pitching, where the good guys don't always win like they do on TV, where you don't always get invited to the good birthday party, in a world where so much goes wrong, there will always be Twinkles and Cocoa Bears and All-Grain Blend, and they'll always taste good.†
- She was a rational woman.†
- She could hear herself talking to one of Sheriff Bannerman's deputies, quite calmly and rationally, and then putting the phone down.†
- She was afraid that if she had told Holly that she had been trying to get Joe's permission to come down here for years, that this trip had only occurred because of brutal generalship on her part, and that even so it had almost come down to Joe's strapping her with his leather belt...she was afraid that if she told Holly those things, her sister's reaction would be horrified anger rather than anything rational and helpful.†
rational = reasonable
Definitions:
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(rational as in: rational behavior) reasonable, able to think clearly, or based on logic rather than emotion
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, rational numbers in mathematics are numbers that can be expressed as a fraction consisting of only an integer in the numerator and denominator. For example, 1/3 is a rational number while pi is an irrational number.