What is another word for rationalize?
Synonyms for rationalize
ˈræʃ ə nlˌaɪz, ˈræʃ nl-ra·tio·nal·ize
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Princeton's WordNet
apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize, rationaliseverb
defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
"rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success"
Synonyms:
justify, condone, apologise, explain, relieve, prune, excuse, beg off, vindicate, warrant, cut, let off, apologize, free, rationalise, exempt, absolve, pardoncut, prune, rationalize, rationaliseverb
weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
"We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"
Synonyms:
veer, bring down, justify, snub, turn off, edit out, cut, burn, hack, trim down, apologize, write out, prune, thin, slue, trim back, trim, ignore, swerve, shorten, apologise, cut off, edit, thin out, cut down, skip, abridge, reduce, rationalise, contract, foreshorten, dilute, curve, excuse, switch off, sheer, make out, geld, slew, tailor, turn out, clip, crop, disregard, issue, cut back, abbreviate, trend, snip, lop, dressrationalize, rationaliseverb
structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results
"We rationalized the factory's production and raised profits"
Synonyms:
prune, excuse, apologise, cut, rationalise, apologize, justifyrationalize, rationaliseverb
think rationally; employ logic or reason
"When one wonders why one is doing certain things, one should rationalize"
Synonyms:
prune, excuse, apologise, cut, rationalise, apologize, justifyrationalize, rationaliseverb
remove irrational quantities from
"This function can be rationalized"
Synonyms:
prune, excuse, apologise, cut, rationalise, apologize, justify
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "rationalize":
streamline, rationalise, rationalizing, rationalization, streamlining, rationalising, streamlined, rationalized, rationalisation
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#42 | free | |
#604 | issue | |
#848 | edit | |
#1204 | contract | |
#1324 | cut | |
#1838 | skip | |
#2036 | reduce | |
#2549 | clip | |
#2868 | dress | |
#3082 | explain | |
#4349 | thin | |
#4405 | trend | |
#4719 | ignore | |
#4915 | burn | |
#5648 | crop | |
#5714 | curve | |
#5998 | trim | |
#6601 | warrant | |
#7347 | exempt | |
#8269 | sheer | |
#8412 | hack | |
#8557 | excuse | |
#9531 | justify | |
#13461 | tailor | |
#13778 | relieve | |
#15033 | apologize | |
#16933 | streamline | |
#17724 | pardon | |
#18414 | disregard | |
#20595 | streamlined | |
#22194 | slew | |
#23816 | snip | |
#26128 | shorten | |
#26285 | streamlining | |
#28687 | dilute | |
#29637 | geld | |
#31029 | apologise | |
#32728 | prune | |
#39252 | condone | |
#40610 | veer | |
#41636 | lop | |
#43009 | rationalize | |
#48437 | rationalization | |
#58771 | snub | |
#60595 | rationalisation | |
#60871 | swerve | |
#74511 | absolve | |
#80199 | vindicate | |
#80885 | rationalized | |
#81833 | rationalizing | |
#82163 | abbreviate | |
#94999 | rationalise | |
#101576 | abridge | |
#157186 | rationalising |
How to use rationalize in a sentence?
There's just this kind of relentless punishment that kind of keeps coming, to rationalize it, all I can say is Mother Earth is definitely fighting back here.
Many men and women – despite good patient education efforts – simply elect not to take medication, fail to change habits like being sedentary with no exercise program, refuse to change dietary and caloric intake, etc., some of this is disease denial. If they feel healthy, they rationalize taking medication is not needed.
While efforts have been made to rationalize distribution of resources, the repeated attacks on health facilities as well as the loss of personnel have caused many facilities to shutter their doors and to fear sharing any data with research personnel for fear that it could be used to target them.
I'd be surprised if it went any lower... I don't think there will be a significant uptick but I think it will rationalize and stabilize over few quarters.
President Saleh was the sweetheart of America and Saudi Arabia, it seems petro-dollars are promoting such reports in order to rationalize war crimes in Yemen as well as the oppression of Bahrain’s completely civil and popular protests.
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