irrational

[Ir*ra·tion*al]

If you're a straight A student and still you worry about failing all of your classes, you're being irrational. Your fears are not based on fact and not likely to come true.

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Not rational; void of reason or understanding; as, brutes are irrational animals.

Adjective
not consistent with or using reason; "irrational fears"; "irrational animals"

Adjective
real but not expressible as the quotient of two integers; "irrational numbers"


a.
Not rational; void of reason or understanding; as, brutes are irrational animals.

a.
Not according to reason; absurd; foolish.

a.
Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd.


Irrational

Ir*ra"tion*al , a. [L. irrationalis: cf. F. irrationnel. See In- not, and Rational.] 1. Not rational; void of reason or understanding; as, brutes are irrational animals. 2. Not according to reason; absurd; foolish.
It seemed utterly irrational any longer to maintain it.
3. (Math.) 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.

Not rational; void of reason or understanding; as, brutes are irrational animals.

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Usage Examples

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

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Other Usage Examples

I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

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