All 4 Uses
rational
in
Anna and the French Kiss
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- I'm determined to speak rationally in his presence.†
p. 24.1
- It's not fair, not rational, for me to be this angry with him, but I can't help it.†
p. 164.1rational = reasonable
- Think about it, she'll get dolled up in one of those satin monstrosities no rational girl would ever wear, and they'll take one of those awful pictures—†
p. 305.7 *
- I hate that every time we meet, he's with a different woman, and I hate that they all think he's this wonderful, charming bloke, when really he's a vicious bastard who'd sooner humiliate me than discuss my education rationally.†
p. 351.3
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) 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.