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rationally
[rash-uh-nl-ee, rash-nl-]
adverb
in a way that is agreeable to and supported by reason; sensibly or logically.
It’s a bit difficult to explain rationally to your teenager why they are being subjected to a drug test at home.
Right-brain thinking also includes intuition, which is not understood rationally but is nonetheless highly valued.
Other 51Թ Forms
- antirationally adverb
- hyperrationally adverb
- nonrationally adverb
- overrationally adverb
- quasi-rationally adverb
- transrationally adverb
- ultrarationally adverb
- unrationally adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of rationally1
Example Sentences
Delivering the judgment rejecting the application for a judicial review, Lady Justice Whipple, sitting with Mr Justice Johnson, said the secretary of state had acted rationally.
If “Life of Pi” has a moral to impart, it’s that what we choose to believe has as profound an effect on our experience of reality as what we rationally know to be true.
These laws are not congressional whim—they arise from and embody the Constitution’s baseline requirement that the political branches act rationally when they make major economic decisions.
In the Commons on Saturday, Reynolds said Jingye had not been negotiating "in good faith", while on Sunday he suggested it had not been acting "rationally".
The Democrats and the so-called Resistance cannot rely on the hope that Trump’s policies will hurt his followers and that they will then “rationally” turn on him.
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