What are some opposite words for rationalize?
Antonyms for rationalize
ˈræʃ ə nlˌaɪz, ˈræʃ nl-ra·tio·nal·ize
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term rationalize.
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
How to use rationalize in a sentence?
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis:
Our government is eager to rationalize the pension system (for example, by limiting early retirement), proceed with partial privatization of public assets, ...create a fully independent tax commission.
Campbell Police Capt. Ian White:
Wesley Charles Martines tried to rationalize everything, insisting there was no ill-intent, once again, law enforcement saved lives before the blood and tears flowed.
The branch of logic is the husband of all sciences. It is indispensable to rationalize them but alone is arid and does not generate the child that is knowledge.
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.
As an atheist you have to rationalize things... Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can't, you have no choice but to be good and scared -- but that's okay
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
---|---|---|
#43009 | rationalize |
Translation
Find a translation for this antonym in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Citation
Use the citation below to add these synonyms to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"rationalize." Synonyms.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 7 May 2024. <https://www.synonyms.com/antonyms/rationalize>.
Discuss these rationalize antonyms with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In