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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.

 

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