irrational
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin irratiōnālis, from ir- + ratiōnālis.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
irrational (comparative more irrational, superlative most irrational)
- Not rational; unfounded or nonsensical.
- an irrational decision
- July 18, 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[1]
- Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
- (mathematics, arithmetic, number theory, not comparable) Of a real number, that cannot be written as the ratio of two integers.
- The number π is irrational.
- Antonym: rational
- Hyponyms: transcendental, uncomputable
Derived terms[edit]
Collocations[edit]
nouns
- irrational fear
- irrational belief
- irrational behavior
- irrational thought
- irrational thinking
- irrational urge
- irrational anger
- irrational jealousy
- irrational desire
- irrational hope
- irrational exuberance
- irrational feeling
- irrational person
- irrational system
adverbs
- completely irrational
- utterly irrational
- wholly irrational
- seemingly irrational
- totally irrational
- quite irrational
- too irrational
Translations[edit]
unfounded or nonsensical
mathematics: of a number
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Noun[edit]
irrational (plural irrationals)
- A real number that can not be expressed as the quotient of two integers, an irrational number.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.24:
- The square root of 2, which was the first irrational to be discovered, was known to the early Pythagoreans, and ingenious methods of approximating to its value were discovered.
Translations[edit]
irrational number
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Further reading[edit]
- irrational at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “irrational”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “irrational”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- “irrational”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “irrational” (US) / “irrational” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
German[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
irrational (strong nominative masculine singular irrationaler, comparative irrationaler, superlative am irrationalsten)
Declension[edit]
Positive forms of irrational
Comparative forms of irrational
Superlative forms of irrational
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