irrational
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/ɪˈɹæʃ.(ə.)nəl/
Definition of irrational
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Not rational; unfounded, nonsensical or wrong-headed.
“an irrational decision”
“July 18, 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/ Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.”
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adj
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Not rational; unfounded, nonsensical or wrong-headed.
“an irrational decision”
“July 18, 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/ Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.”
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(not-comparable)Of a real number, that cannot be written as the ratio of two integers.
“The number π is irrational.”
noun
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A real number that can not be expressed as the quotient of two integers, an irrational number.
“The square root of 2, which was the first irrational to be discovered, was known to the early Pythagoreans, and ingenious methods of approximating to its value were discovered.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin irratiōnālis, from ir- + ratiōnālis.
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