Thesaurus: irrational

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1. a. Not rational; void of reason or understanding; as, brutes are irrational animals.
2. a. Not according to reason; absurd; foolish.
3. a. Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd.
4. adj. not consistent with or using reason
5. adj. real but not expressible as the quotient of two integers
6. n. a real number that cannot be expressed as a rational number
7. 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. I. Taylor. 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.
8. Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number,or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd.
9. j:100 a. not consistent with or using reason a. real but not expressible as the quotient of two integers