Suitable vs Rational - What's the difference?
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Having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion.
Capable of reasoning.
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Logically sound; not contradictory or otherwise absurd.
(label) Healthy or balanced intellectually; exhibiting reasonableness.
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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.
(mathematics) A rational number: a number that can be expressed as the quotient of two integers.
A rational being.
Suitable is a related term of rational.
As adjectives the difference between suitable and rational
is that suitable is having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion while rational is capable of reasoning.As a noun rational is
(mathematics) a rational number: a number that can be expressed as the quotient of two integers.suitable
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Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* fit for purpose (British) * up to standard (British)Antonyms
* unsuitableDerived terms
* suitabilitySee also
* fit * meet * appropriate * apt * pertinent * seemly * eligible * consonant * corresponding * congruousExternal links
* * 1000 English basic wordsrational
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Alternative forms
* rationall (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) rationel, rational, from (etyl)Adjective
(en adjective)Magician’s brain, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason.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.}}
- ¾ is a rational number, but ?2 is an irrational number.
Antonyms
* (reasonable) absurd, irrational, nonsensical * (capable of reasoning) arational, irrational, non-rational * (number theory) irrationalEtymology 2
From (etyl) rational, from , for which see the first etymology.Noun
(en noun)- The quotient of two rationals''' is again a '''rational .
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