irrational /ir-ashˈə-nəl/
adjective- Not rational
- Not commensurable with natural numbers
- Long treated as short, or having such a syllable (indicated
; prosody)
An irrational syllable or number
ORIGIN: ir- (in- (2))
irraˈtionalism noun
- An irrational system
- Irrationality
irraˈtionalist noun and adjective
irrationalistˈic adjective
irrationalˈity noun
irraˈtionalize or irraˈtionalise transitive verb
To make irrational
irraˈtionally adverb
irrational number noun
A real number that cannot be expressed as a fraction whose denominator and numerator are both integers