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Definition of Rational

Rational

  1. Relating to the reason; not physical; mental.
  2. Having reason, or the faculty of reasoning; endowed with reason or understanding; reasoning.
  3. Agreeable to reason; not absurd, preposterous, extravagant, foolish, fanciful, or the like; wise; judicious; as, rational conduct; a rational man.
  4. Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; -- said of formulae. See under Formula.
  5. A rational being.

Rational Quotations

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.
Thomas Jefferson

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.
Ayn Rand

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
Lee Iacocca
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Rational Translations

rational in Dutch is redelijk, rationeel
rational in French is rationnel
rational in Italian is razionale
rational in Portuguese is racional
rational in Spanish is racional

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