different between unintelligible vs irrational
unintelligible
English
Etymology
un- +? intelligible.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n?n?t?l?d??b?l/
Adjective
unintelligible (comparative more unintelligible, superlative most unintelligible)
- Not intelligible; unable to be understood.
- 1697, John Locke, Letter to the Bishop of Worcester (second reply):
- And indeed, my lord, there are so many passages in your writing in this controversy with me, which for their construction, as well as otherwise, are so unintelligible to me, that if I should be so unmannerly as to measure your understanding by mine, I should not know what to think of them.
- 1697, John Locke, Letter to the Bishop of Worcester (second reply):
Synonyms
- inscrutable, unexplainable; See also Thesaurus:incomprehensible
Antonyms
- intelligible; See also Thesaurus:comprehensible
Translations
See also
- incomprehensible
- unfathomable
- fathomless
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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
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