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Premeditated vs Rational - What's the difference?

premeditated | rational |

As adjectives the difference between premeditated and rational

is that premeditated is planned, considered or estimated in advance; deliberate while rational is capable of reasoning.

As a verb premeditated

is (premeditate).

As a noun rational is

(mathematics) a rational number: a number that can be expressed as the quotient of two integers.

premeditated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (premeditate)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Planned, considered or estimated in advance; deliberate.
    • premeditated assault
    a premeditated act of aggression
    a premeditated breach of contract
    in the face of premeditated criminal acts
    caused by grossly negligent or premeditated infringement of duty
    There is no proof of premeditated or grossly negligent wrongdoing.

    Antonyms

    * unpremeditated

    Related terms

    * premeditating * premeditation

    rational

    English

    Alternative forms

    * rationall (obsolete)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) rationel, rational, from (etyl)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Capable of reasoning.
  • *
  • Logically sound; not contradictory or otherwise absurd.
  • (label) Healthy or balanced intellectually; exhibiting reasonableness.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Magician’s brain , passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
  • Of a number, capable of being expressed as the ratio of two integers.
    • ¾ is a rational number, but ?2 is an irrational number.
  • Of an algebraic expression, capable of being expressed as the ratio of two polynomials.
  • (label) Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; said of formulae.
    • Antonyms
    * (reasonable) absurd, irrational, nonsensical * (capable of reasoning) arational, irrational, non-rational * (number theory) irrational
    Related terms
    * arational * irrational * non-rational * rationale * rationality * rationalness * subrational * suprarational

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) rational, from , for which see the first etymology.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mathematics) A rational number: a number that can be expressed as the quotient of two integers.
    • The quotient of two rationals''' is again a '''rational .
  • A rational being.
    • (Young)

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