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.