different between fatuous vs irrational
fatuous
English
Etymology
From Latin fatuus (“foolish, silly, simple”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?fæt.ju.?s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?fæt?.u.?s/
Adjective
fatuous (comparative more fatuous, superlative most fatuous)
- Obnoxiously stupid, vacantly silly, content in one's foolishness.
- 2004, Frank Tallis, Love Sick: Love as a Mental Illness (page 46)
- A fatuous love affair can easily result in a fatuous marriage. A couple who hardly know each other and, indeed, may not even really like each other, make a commitment that has little chance of being honoured.
- 2004, Frank Tallis, Love Sick: Love as a Mental Illness (page 46)
Synonyms
- (obnoxiously stupid): childish, imbecilic, inane, insipid, puerile
Related terms
- fatuity
- fatuously
- fatuousness
- infatuate
Translations
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irrational
English
Etymology
From Latin irrati?n?lis, from ir- + rati?n?lis.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?r?'sh(?)n?l, IPA(key): /???æ?.(?.)n?l/
Adjective
irrational (comparative more irrational, superlative most irrational)
- Not rational; unfounded or nonsensical.
- July 18, 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[1]
- Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
- July 18, 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[1]
- (mathematics, arithmetic, number theory, not comparable) Of a real number, that cannot be written as the ratio of two integers.
- Antonym: rational
- Hyponym: transcendental
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
irrational (plural irrationals)
- A real number that can not be expressed as the quotient of two integers, an irrational number.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.24:
- The square root of 2, which was the first irrational to be discovered, was known to the early Pythagoreans, and ingenious methods of approximating to its value were discovered.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.24:
Translations
German
Alternative forms
- irrationell
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???at?si?ona?l/, /??at?si?o?na?l/
Adjective
irrational (comparative irrationaler, superlative am irrationalsten)
- irrational
Declension
irrational From the web:
- what irrational numbers
- what irrational mean
- what irrational number is closest to 4
- what irrational behavior
- what irrational or rational number
- what are 3 irrational numbers
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