Synonyms for rational

Synonyms for (noun) rational

Synonyms: rational, rational number

Definition: an integer or a fraction

Similar words: real, real number

Definition: any rational or irrational number


Synonyms for (adj) rational

Synonyms: rational

Definition: having its source in or being guided by the intellect (as distinguished from experience or emotion)

Usage: a rational analysis

Similar words: intellectual

Definition: appealing to or using the intellect

Usage: satire is an intellectual weapon; intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor; has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people; coldly intellectual; sort of the intellectual type; intellectual literature


Synonyms: intellectual, noetic, rational

Definition: of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind

Usage: intellectual problems; the triumph of the rational over the animal side of man

Similar words: mental

Definition: involving the mind or an intellectual process

Usage: mental images of happy times; mental calculations; in a terrible mental state; mental suffering; free from mental defects


Synonyms: rational

Definition: consistent with or based on or using reason

Usage: rational behavior; a process of rational inference; rational thought

Similar words: coherent, logical, lucid

Definition: capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner

Usage: a lucid thinker; she was more coherent than she had been just after the accident


Similar words: demythologised, demythologized

Definition: having mythical elements removed


Similar words: intelligent, reasoning, thinking

Definition: endowed with the capacity to reason


Similar words: reasonable, sane

Definition: marked by sound judgment

Usage: sane nuclear policy


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