Both Uses of
irrational
in
She Said Yes
- There were times when she was acting so irrationally that I felt like slapping her, just to knock her back to her senses.†
p. 57.3 *irrationally = in a manner that is not reasonable
- I guess she was smart enough to understand that she was never going to get anywhere until she could pull herself together, stop the irrational outbursts, and face the facts at hand.†
p. 74.8irrational = unreasonable
Definitions:
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(irrational) not reasonable
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(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.