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ALL meanings of irrational

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  • adjective irrational action, idea: not making sense 1
  • adjective irrational person: incoherent 1
  • adjective irrational without the faculty of reason; deprived of reason. 1
  • adjective irrational without or deprived of normal mental clarity or sound judgment. 1
  • adjective irrational not in accordance with reason; utterly illogical: irrational arguments. 1
  • adjective irrational not endowed with the faculty of reason: irrational animals. 1
  • adjective irrational Mathematics. (of a number) not capable of being expressed exactly as a ratio of two integers. (of a function) not capable of being expressed exactly as a ratio of two polynomials. 1
  • adjective irrational Algebra. (of an equation) having an unknown under a radical sign or, alternately, with a fractional exponent. 1
  • adjective irrational Greek and Latin Prosody. of or relating to a substitution in the normal metrical pattern, especially a long syllable for a short one. noting a foot or meter containing such a substitution. 1
  • noun irrational Mathematics. irrational number. 1
  • noun irrational An irrational number. 1
  • adjective irrational If you describe someone's feelings and behaviour as irrational, you mean they are not based on logical reasons or clear thinking. 0
  • adjective irrational inconsistent with reason or logic; illogical; absurd 0
  • adjective irrational incapable of reasoning 0
  • adjective irrational not rational 0
  • adjective irrational (as noun) 0
  • adjective irrational of or relating to a metrical irregularity, usually the occurrence of a long syllable instead of a short one 0
  • adjective irrational denoting a metrical foot where such an irregularity occurs 0
  • adjective irrational lacking the power to reason 0
  • adjective irrational contrary to reason; senseless; unreasonable; absurd 0
  • adjective irrational designating a real number not expressible as an integer or as a quotient of two integers: √3 and pi are irrational numbers 0
  • noun irrational A real number that can not be expressed as the quotient of two integers, an irrational number. 0
  • adjective irrational Not rational; unfounded or nonsensical. 0
  • adjective irrational (mathematics, arithmetic, number theory, not comparable) Of a real number, that cannot be written as the ratio of two integers. 0
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