Meaning & use

irrational

adjective·Academic

Not based on logic or clear reasoning, especially when driven by emotion instead.

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His irrational fear of elevators made the business trip especially stressful.

It felt irrational to panic over a delay of only ten minutes.

A note on using this word

In mathematics, an 'irrational number' cannot be written as a simple fraction, a distinct and unrelated technical sense.

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Words with an opposite meaning

rationallogical

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