Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: irrational
IPA transcription: [,ɪɹ'æʃənəl]
Pronunciations of irrational
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: irrational
    Meaning: not consistent with or using reason; "irrational fears"; "irrational animals"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: irrational_number, irrational
    Meaning: a real number that cannot be expressed as a rational number
Usage examples
  • (2) Whether the image of God is in irrational creatures?
  • Our confidence, therefore, after all is not so utterly irrational.
  • Objection 1: It would seem that the image of God is to be found in irrational creatures.
  • The shape of the cross is irrational, just as the shape of the human animal is irrational.
  • You start by hating the irrational and you come to hate everything, for everything is irrational and so----"
  • It is, however, quite foreign to the custom of the Scriptures for the powers of irrational things to be designated as angels.
  • Reason is a principle of order appearing in a subject-matter which in its subsistence and quantity must be an irrational datum.
  • Either he regretted the extent of his confidences or the slight irrational irritation that he felt at waiting for his car affected his attitude towards his companion, or Dr. Martineau's tentatives were ill-chosen.
  • But I cannot consent to argue the point as if society had no means of bringing its weaker members up to its ordinary standard of rational conduct, except waiting till they do something irrational, and then punishing them, legally or morally, for it.
  • A bruised child wailing in the street, his small world for the moment utterly black and cruel before him, does not fetch his unhappiness from sophisticated comparisons or irrational envy; nor can any compensations and celestial harmonies supervening later ever expunge or justify that moment's bitterness.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Limerence, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hypochondriasis, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Transhumanism, License CC BY-SA 4.0