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# rational

«rational» in Mova's school dictionary: **Able to think clearly and sensibly, using reason rather…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) Able to think clearly and sensibly, using reason rather than feelings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rational/#m1)

2) Sensible, fair and based on good thinking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rational/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, humans are the only creatures able to think and reason

### examples

- Humans are rational creatures; animals are not. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rational/#x1)
- A rational choice is one you have thought about carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rational/#x2)
- Be rational: the bus is late, so we will walk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rational/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths in counting; in later maths a «rational number» is one that can be written as a fraction

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rational» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rational/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.