Word Meanings - RATIONALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To render rational; to free from radical signs or quantities. (more info) 1. To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism. 2. To interpret in the manner of a rationalist. 3. To form a rational conception of.
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- RATIONALIZATION
The act or process of rationalizing. - CONVERTIBILITY
The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke. - RATIONALISTIC; RATIONALISTICAL
Belonging to, or in accordance with, the principles of rationalism. -- Ra`tion*al*is"tic*al*ly, adv. - CONCEPTIONAL
Pertaining to conception. - INTERPRETABLE
Admitting of interpretation; capable of being interpreted or explained. - RADICALNESS
Quality or state of being radical. - CONVERTIBLY
In a convertible manner. - INTERPRETATIVELY
By interpretation. Ray. - INTERPRETIVE
Interpretative. - RATIONALLY
In a rational manner. - RATIONAL
Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; -- said of formulæ. See under Formula. Rational horizon. See Horizon, 2 . -- Rational quantity , one that can be expressed without the use of a radical sign, or - CONCEPTIONALIST
A conceptualist. - MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - RATIONALITY
The quality or state of being rational; agreement with reason; possession of reason; due exercise of reason; reasonableness. When God has made rationality the common portion of mankind, how came it to be thy inclosure Gov. of Tongue. Well-directed - CONVERTIBLE
1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. 2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable. - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - CONVERTEND
Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the conversae. See Converse, n. . - RADICALLY
1. In a radical manner; at, or from, the origin or root; fundamentally; as, a scheme or system radically wrong or defective. 2. Without derivation; primitively; essentially. These great orbs thus radically bright. Prior. - RENDERABLE
Capable of being rendered. - RENDER
One who rends. - SUPERCONCEPTION
Superfetation. Sir T. Browne. - MISINTERPRETABLE
Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood. - SPORADICAL
Sporadic. - IRRATIONAL
Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd. Syn. -- Absurd; foolish; preposterous; unreasonable; senseless. See Absurd. (more info) 1. Not rational; void of - INCONVERTED
Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne. - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - RECONVERTIBLE
Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition. - UNCONVERTED
1. Not converted or exchanged. 2. Not changed in opinion, or from one faith to another. Specifically: -- Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish. Hooker. Unregenerate; sinful; impenitent. Baxter. - EQUIRADICAL
Equally radical. Coleridge. - PHASE CONVERTER
A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency. - INCONVERTIBLE
Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh. - MISRENDER
To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly. Boyle.