All 4 Uses
rational
in
The Girl on the Train
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- I felt as though I could think more rationally.†
p. 155.6 *
- He is kind, rational.†
p. 255.8rational = reasonable
- I have no idea what I was going to say to her nothing rational, I'm sure.†
p. 271.7
- And I have to think rationally, I have to think clearly.†
p. 355.9
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.