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irrational

If something is irrational is it not rational, or it is nonsensical. That decision was completely irrational.

irrational

not consistent with or using reason irrational fears irrational animals real but not expressible as the quotient of two integers irrational numbers (= irrational number) a real number that cannot be expressed as a rational number

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Simple sentences

Nobody understood Tom's irrational behavior.
He's stupid and irrational.
He's jealous and irrational.
She's jealous and irrational.
Pi is an irrational number.
Tom forgot how to prove that the square root of 2 is irrational.
Love is irrational.
The irrational conversation continued.
Clava loves all things irrational, and works at the kindergarten for precisely that reason.
It's completely irrational.
One thing I learned a long time ago was that anger clouds the mind. I've seen a lot of people I know personally transform into irrational beasts when angry, and this rant of yours is no exception. Try to keep calm.
Humans are irrational.

Movie subtitles

A little irrational, maybe, same as anyone after committing murder.
They say that Frank is still a bit irrational, and insists upon seeing her.
I've thought of you as emotionally immature. torn by irrational rages, a bit on the psychopathic side.
To be blunt about it, Mr. Hoyt took the most irrational attitude. about a tax law that was levied on him by the Provisional Government.
Oh, won't pay their taxes, an irrational resentment of Rome.
Quite irrational.
You're completely irrational!
Morticia, this man sounds irrational.
The poor man is irrational.
You want to know about irrational and imaginary numbers?
As though they were irrational, drugged.
This heat is bound to lead to irrational behaviour.
She's irrational.
We must use wild, insane, irrational illogic aimed right at Norman!
Or perhaps he's just. Out of control, irrational. Paranoid and reactionary.
Then you admit that your book is irrational and of no scientific value?
So irrational.
I've thought of you as emotionally immature, torn by irrational rages a bit on the psychopathic side.
Dr. Merrinoe, your resistance is irrational.
I saw you together with your mother and was seized with an irrational fear.
Oh, won't pay their taxes, an irrational resentment of Rome..
The more irrational love is, the more painful.
That is the ultimate in irrational behaviour.
You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, an irrational fear of the unknown.
Almost as though they were irrational, drugged.
Or perhaps he's just out of control, irrational, paranoid and reactionary.
The proletariat has only one irrational ideal.
Irrational.
That is irrational, illogical.
And we poor, irrational humans whipped them in a fair fight.

News and current affairs

And, while conspiracy theories are often patently irrational, the questions they address are often healthy, even if the answers are frequently unsourced or just plain wrong.
In seeking answers, these citizens are reacting rationally to irrational realities.
That six-percentage-point difference in anticipated real yield is a measure of bond investors' extraordinary and irrational panic.
However, being radical does not necessarily mean being irrational, and revolutionary Iran has given frequent proof of its pragmatism.
Though Bashir may be able to avoid arrest simply by limiting his international travel, the commotion provoked by the indictment is not irrational.
Although changes in market psychology are difficult to understand, the broad concerns that underlie such episodes of irrational exuberance are almost always clear.
It means sticking to principles, but also attempting to understand the other side, however irrational or intransigent it may sometimes appear.
In other words, the traditional securities available to investors make it easier to bet in favor of a company than against it, causing prices to be affected more by irrational exuberance than by panics.
Since there is no fairness problem here, would it not simply be irrational to reject efficiency?
But there is nothing irrational in deciding otherwise.
For example, the recent spike in oil prices would have been driven by an irrational frenzy in futures markets.
It is a bitterness rooted, in other words, in material causes, not in some fanatical, irrational, and anti-democratic sentiment whose adherents must either be re-educated or crushed.
If so, is it not the duty of official bodies like the ECB to challenge irrational beliefs about the economy, rather than pander to them?
This vicious downward spiral for business confidence typically features phishes - for example, the victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme - discovered only after the period of irrational exuberance has ended.
For Iranians, as bearers of faith and national pride, responses that seem to others self-righteous and irrational are, in fact, necessary and acceptable.
Problems could arise only because of unanticipated shocks, temporary local political difficulties, and - the favorite culprit - irrational markets.
This is a fortunate coincidence, because shale-gas production would probably make it politically easier to phase out Poland's economically and environmentally irrational subsidies to local coal production (and consumption).
After the sub-prime mortgage crisis, politicians alleged that the market was short-sighted and irrational, and rushed to propose new regulations.
But, as British Prime Minister David Cameron has now demonstrated, the European chain is most likely to break not at its weakest link, but at its most irrational.

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