Outrageous vs Irrational - What's the difference?
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Cruel, violating morality or decency; provoking indignation or affront.
* c. 1601 , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet) , First Folio 1623:
* 2011 , Paul Wilson, (The Guardian) , 19 Oct 2011:
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.4:
Transgressing reasonable limits; extravagant, immoderate.
* 2004 , David Smith, , 19 Dec 2004:
Shocking; exceeding conventional behaviour; provocative.
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1
, passage=She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.}}
* 2001 , Imogen Tilden, (The Guardian) , 8 Dec 2001:
*:"It's something I really am quite nervous about," he admits, before adding, with relish: "You have to be a bit outrageous and challenging sometimes."
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:
Outrageous is a related term of irrational.
As adjectives the difference between outrageous and irrational
is that outrageous is cruel, violating morality or decency; provoking indignation or affront while irrational is not rational; unfounded or nonsensical.As a noun irrational is
a real number that can not be expressed as the quotient of two integers, an irrational number.outrageous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- To be, or not to be, that is the Question: / Whether 'tis Nobler in the minde to suffer / The Slings and Arrowes of outragious Fortune, / Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them [...].
- The Irish-French rugby union whistler Alain Rolland was roundly condemned for his outrageous decision that lifting a player into the air then turning him over so he falls on his head or neck amounted to dangerous play.
- For els my feeble vessell, crazd and crackt / Through thy strong buffets and outrageous blowes, / Cannot endure, but needes it must be wrackt [...].
- Audience members praised McKellen, best known for Shakespearean roles and as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, for his show-stealing turn as Twankey in a series of outrageous glitzy dresses.
George Goodchild
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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.