Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonrational
Adjective
  • Maura’s performance makes Maria Angeles so magnetic and eccentric — earthily practical on some matters, dizzily irrational on others, and sympathetically true to herself on all fronts — that all the film’s other players want for detail and texture by comparison.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The roll call of people across the decades who have had access to nuclear weapons includes many who are considerably less rational than the irrational rest of us.
    Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Let sound political prescience but take the place of an unreasoning prejudice, and this will be done.
    Frederick Douglass, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2017
Adjective
  • The Justice Department in its June 2024 report on problems with policing in Phoenix found that police delayed medical assistance to people who appeared to be incapacitated as a result of the use of force by officers and used unreasonable force on people who had already been wounded by officers.
    Elena Santa Cruz, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Investors had initially feared that ASDA’s undercuts would lead to market leaders Tesco and Sainsbury’s having to lower prices to an unreasonable point in order to maintain their market shares.
    John Choong, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Dumas’ injunction states that any decisions made in meetings with Weatherington claiming the chair seat are illegitimate.
    Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Putin asked, reiterating a common Russian argument that their country sees the Ukrainian leader as illegitimate.
    Tara Suter, The Hill, 4 Sep. 2025
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“Nonrational.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonrational. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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