Irrational Definition
ĭ-răshə-nəl
adjective
Lacking the power to reason.
Webster's New World
Affected by loss of usual or normal mental clarity; incoherent, as from shock.
American Heritage Medicine
Contrary to reason or rationality; senseless; unreasonable; absurd.
Webster's New World
Being a syllable in Greek and Latin prosody whose length does not fit the metric pattern.
American Heritage
Designating a real number not expressible as an integer or as a quotient of two integers: √3 and pi are irrational numbers.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
noun
An irrational number.
American Heritage
A real number that can not be expressed as the quotient of two integers, an irrational number.
Wiktionary
other
(mathematics): transcendental.
Wiktionary
Other Word Forms of Irrational
Noun
Singular:
irrational
Plural:
irrationalsOrigin of Irrational
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From Latin irratiōnālis, from ir- + ratiōnālis.
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