Synonym: level-headed, logical, reasonable, sensible, sound, thinking. Antonym: absurd. Similar words: rationalize, national, educational, nationalism, international, organizational, constitutional convention, emotional. Meaning: ['ræʃənl] n. an integer or a fraction. adj. 1. consistent with or based on or using reason 2. of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind 3. capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers 4. having its source in or being guided by the intellect (distinguished from experience or emotion).
Random good picture Not show
91 The implication, they fear, is that when the chips are down it is only rational human beings that really matter.
92 Atheists and secular people are more liberal and less prejudiced and dogmatic, whereas theists and religious people are more conservative and less rational and tolerant. Dr T.P.Chia
93 Its importance for the believer lies in the fact that it is essential to the rational practice of worship and prayer.
94 In the absence of rational criteria to guide theory choice, theory change becomes akin to religious conversion.
95 From a rational choice perspective, you would be rather foolish to vote in a presidential election.
96 In his latest book on fertility decline, J.A. Banks dismisses the argument that fertility control results from economically rational behaviour.
97 Racism is not founded on rational thought, but on fear.
98 Meader found that by any standard, even if one disagrees with their decisions, voters exercised informed judgment and rational choices.
99 The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
100 Have we ever figured out a rational way to explain and triage which drugs should be banned for which reasons?
101 Both theories are exercises in analytical moral philosophy which aspire to provide rational principles to support particular conceptions of just social arrangements.
101 Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
102 As long as we are alive, rational and able to move the hand, we can sign our name.
103 Its triumph in everyday discourse is the demand for rational or empirical justification.
104 The most rational therapy in these conditions is calcium supplementation and vitamin D replacement.
105 And most recently, Freud eliminated the discontinuity between the rational world of the ego and the irrational world of the unconscious.
106 They need to provide the factual knowledge and the reasoning skills that a rational mind requires.
107 In speaking thus,(sentencedict.com) there is a claim to rational discourse and an implicit defence against any criticism of being irrational.
108 Even though he did not actually advocate it, Locke certainly did much to foster such rational deism.
109 If finally I become wholly submerged in this solipsism there could be no other rational ethic for me than egoism.
110 It is perfectly rational for individual banks to want to foreclose early on companies having trouble repaying their loans.
111 The Rational / Bureaucratic model can produce overly restrictive formal systems that stifle initiative and reduce responsiveness to change.
112 The other weakness of the social contract model lies in its excessively rational and legalistic nature.
113 It certainly owes nothing to any rational assessment of electoral support.
114 At a rational level, and fully conversant with contraceptive methods, they know their fear is unwarranted.
115 Intellectually rational and emotionally intelligent people are the winners in life. Dr T.P.Chia
116 Therefore the rational expectations hypothesis suggests a valid method of incorporating additional information when estimating macroeconomic models which contain expectation terms.
117 Conventional histories of penology tend to represent these developments in penal thought and practice as rational, progressive, scientific and humane.
118 In the second place, the claim of rational thought to limitless applicability has been disproved.
119 Statement E: Racism as rational self interest I think that's absolute nonsense.
120 To take these points in reverse order, the initiation of the student into the rational life should occur in two directions.
More similar words: rationalize, national, educational, nationalism, international, organizational, constitutional convention, emotional, ratification, functional, additional, gratification, traditional, proportional, conventional, traditionally, donation, zonation, instructional, institutional, constitutional, unconditionally, operation, unconstitutional, migration, probationary, aberration, reparation, AND operation, separation.