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Sentence count:205+2Posted:2016-11-28Updated:2020-07-24
Antonym: rationalSimilar words: rationalrationalizenationalaberrationeducationalnationalisminternationalorganizationalMeaning: [ɪ'ræʃənl]  n. a real number that cannot be expressed as a rational number. adj. 1. not consistent with or using reason 2. real but not expressible as the quotient of two integers. 
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31) He understands the manic rhythms of a city that borders on the irrational, yet still embodies a nervy humanity.
32) It seems that anxious people condition most easily and it is thought that irrational fears are established in this way.
33) It was a pathetic gesture on my part, an irrational breach of the wall.
34) Maybe they too are rational rather than irrational, morally disreputable rather than organically abnormal, overwhelmed by adversity rather than by wickedness.
35) I have an irrational fear that Lucker will blank me.
36) The primary danger of war was the irrational arms race and overly hostile relations between the major military powers.
37) Instead of rejecting religion out of hand as irrational(Sentencedict), he enquired about it.
38) Explanations are plentiful: absurd, irrational, unscientific explanations, alongside absurd, rational, scientific ones.
39) And most recently, Freud eliminated the discontinuity between the rational world of the ego and the irrational world of the unconscious.
40) In speaking thus, there is a claim to rational discourse and an implicit defence against any criticism of being irrational.
41) Irrational perhaps, but they approach their misery from entirely different directions and ethnic entanglements.
42) Jane's irrational hopes began to rise as she listened to him.
43) Anyway, you can't dismiss the experimental method just because some irrational people choose not to put the findings into practice.
44) If your subject to these irrational fears, then use that fear as a trigger to change your attitude.
45) Their reactions can range from anger to irrational guilt, fear and embarrassment.
46) Yet although these medical theories were wrong, they weren't altogether irrational.
47) If Dane drinks even a couple of beers, he becomes irrational and even violent.
48) In retrospect their structure seems irrational with no clear division between territorial and functional responsibilities.
49) The world economic system is as blind, irrational and without subject as was the former system of national economy.
50) As a confirmed haggis lover, that just proves how irrational we humans can be!
51) One can argue with Czerny's and Hummel's metronome markings, but on no grounds can they be dismissed as irrational.
52) In the Cold War irrational behaviour like this acquired a sort of sacred aura.
53) To treat racism as a matter of irrational prejudice is really a micro-reductive variant on this theme.
54) It is rather how to demarcate reasonable science from irrational ideologies, such as astrology and racist nationalisms.
55) Again, careful teaching is important as well as loving discussion of these often irrational fears.
56) That concept is irrational and unworkable because it flies in the face of everything we know about human nature.
57) A man once famed for his intolerance, xenophobia and irrational rages has become a husk of his former self.
58) On this view high fertility is economically irrational, or at least is made so by the new circumstances.
59) His spirits, which had dropped at her last words, rose with an irrational leap.
60) She'd felt that as soon as she'd turned off the lamp, which showed how irrational it was.
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