Irrational vs Outlandish - What's the difference?
irrational | outlandish | Related terms |
Not rational; unfounded or nonsensical.
* July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
(mathematics, arithmetic, number theory, not comparable) Of a real number, that cannot be written as the ratio of two integers.
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:
bizarre, strange
:The rock star wore black with outlandish pink and green spiked hair.
(archaic) foreign, alien
Irrational is a related term of outlandish.
As adjectives the difference between irrational and outlandish
is that irrational is not rational; unfounded or nonsensical while outlandish is bizarre, strange.As a noun irrational
is a real number that can not be expressed as the quotient of two integers, an irrational number.irrational
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an irrational decision
- 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.
- The number π is irrational .
Antonyms
* (mathematics) rationalHyponyms
* (mathematics) transcendentalDerived terms
* irrational number * irrationality * irrationalize * irrationalizationNoun
(en noun)- 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.
