Thesaurus / rational
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They want to make sure they make the best rational decision – but they can’t.
SEO PROPOSALS: PARTICULAR CHALLENGES AND HOW TO AVOID GETTING A SILENT NOSEOMONITORSEPTEMBER 10, 2020SEARCH ENGINE WATCHAristotle held that our nature as rational animals means that it is objectively good for us when we act rationally and objectively bad for us when we fail to do so.
THE UNIVERSE KNOWS RIGHT FROM WRONG - ISSUE 89: THE DARK SIDEPHILIP GOFFSEPTEMBER 9, 2020NAUTILUSRioting and unrest, while tragic and destructive, remains a historically familiar and rational response to state violence and weak democratic institutions.
KENOSHA’S LOOTING IS A SYMPTOM OF A DECREPIT DEMOCRACYAARON ROSS COLEMANSEPTEMBER 4, 2020VOXThat’s like telling us rational economic man is self-interested.
IS ECONOMIC GROWTH THE WRONG GOAL? (EP. 429)STEPHEN J. DUBNERAUGUST 13, 2020FREAKONOMICSWhere I live behind the Orange curtain in Southern California, the sudden leap to virtual classroom teaching and learning makes rational sense during this period of growing coronavirus infections.
ONLINE LEARNING IS HERE TO STAYSARA-ELLEN AMSTERAUGUST 7, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOSupercomputers allow researchers to take a rational approach and aim to selectively muzzle proteins that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, needs for its life cycle.
SCIENTISTS TAP THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL COMPUTERS IN THE RACE TO UNDERSTAND AND STOP THE CORONAVIRUSJEREMY SMITHJUNE 4, 2020SINGULARITY HUB To supply eminent humorists and others with enjoyable, rational, and profitable employment.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 107, NOVEMBER 3, 1894VARIOUSThe pleasures of life (the rational pleasures I hope) had always an attraction for me.
FIFTY YEARS OF RAILWAY LIFE IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND AND IRELANDJOSEPH TATLOWSeven o'clock in the morning is too early for any rational human being to be herded into a factory at the call of a steam whistle.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCKSo, again, the rule of the English Church seems less beneficial than that of the more rational and free Nonconformist.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORDWORDS RELATED TO RATIONAL
- all there
- balanced
- both oars in water
- commonsensical
- compos mentis
- discerning
- fair-minded
- fit
- having all marbles
- healthy
- in one's right mind
- intelligent
- judicious
- levelheaded
- logical
- lucid
- moderate
- normal
- of sound mind
- oriented
- playing with full deck
- prudent
- rational
- right
- right-minded
- sagacious
- sage
- sapient
- self-possessed
- sensible
- sober
- sound
- steady
- together
- well
- wise
- all there
- astute
- attentive
- au courant
- aware
- canny
- cognizant
- commonsensical
- conscious
- consequent
- conversant
- cool
- discerning
- discreet
- discriminating
- down-to-earth
- far-sighted
- having all one's marbles
- in right mind
- informed
- intelligent
- judicious
- knowing
- logical
- matter-of-fact
- practical
- prudent
- rational
- sagacious
- sage
- sane
- sentient
- shrewd
- sober
- sound
- together
- well-reasoned
- well-thought-out
- wise
- witting
- abstaining
- clear-headed
- cold
- collected
- composed
- constrained
- cool
- dark
- disciplined
- dispassionate
- down-to-earth
- drab
- earnest
- eschewing
- forgoing
- grave
- hard-boiled
- imperturbable
- inhibited
- levelheaded
- low-key
- lucid
- no-nonsense
- pacific
- plain
- practical
- quiet
- rational
- realistic
- reasonable
- reserved
- restrained
- sedate
- serene
- serious
- severe
- soft
- solemn
- somber
- sound
- staid
- steady
- subdued
- toned-down
- unexcited
- unimpassioned
- unruffled
- accurate
- advisable
- all there
- cogent
- commonsensical
- consequent
- convincing
- cool
- correct
- deep
- exact
- fair
- faultless
- flawless
- got it together
- impeccable
- intellectual
- judicious
- just
- levelheaded
- orthodox
- precise
- profound
- proper
- prudent
- rational
- reliable
- responsible
- right
- right-minded
- right-thinking
- satisfactory
- satisfying
- sensible
- sober
- solid
- telling
- thoughtful
- together
- true
- trustworthy
- valid
- well-advised
- well-founded
- well-grounded
- wise
- absorbed
- analytical
- attentive
- brainy
- calculating
- cerebral
- cogitative
- deep
- deliberative
- discerning
- earnest
- engrossed
- farsighted
- grave
- intellectual
- intent
- keen
- levelheaded
- logical
- lost in thought
- meditative
- melancholy
- museful
- musing
- pensive
- philosophic
- pondering
- preoccupied
- rapt
- rational
- reasonable
- reasoning
- reflecting
- reflective
- retrospective
- ruminative
- serious
- sober
- studious
- subjective
- thinking
- wise
- wistful
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