All 9 Uses of
rational
in
Nineteen Minutes
- Desperate, she did what she had to do at that moment, although it was exactly what the public defender's office counseled their lawyers not to; but she was entirely rational and aware that she had never done this for a client and never would do it again.†
Chpt 1rational = reasonable
- The attendant stared at him, the way you do when you realize the conversation you're having has veered from the rational.†
Chpt 1
- I'll kill him, Alex thought rationally, calmly, after I take care of my daughter.†
Chpt 1 *
- These are not the acts of someone who doesn't know what he's doing-they're the hallmarks of a rational, angry-perhaps suffering, but certainly not delusional-young man.'†
Chpt 2rational = reasonable
- If he had been, he wouldn't have been planning his attack as rationally and methodically.'†
Chpt 2
- It's sort of like the president of the brain, in charge of calculated, rational thought.†
Chpt 2rational = reasonable
- 'Well, Peter's capacity for rational, planned, premeditated thought is still in its developmental stages.†
Chpt 2
- Which-as a Yankees fan myself-was enough to call into question his capacity for rational thought.†
Chpt 2
- 'Again,' the psychiatrist said, 'we're not talking about rational behavior.†
Chpt 2
Definitions:
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(1)
(rational as in: rational behavior) reasonable, able to think clearly, or based on logic rather than emotion
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(2)
(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.