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Synonyms for rationalise
ra·tio·nalise
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Princeton's WordNet
rationalize, 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:
rationalize, prune, excuse, apologise, cut, apologize, justifyapologize, 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, rationalize, excuse, beg off, vindicate, warrant, cut, let off, apologize, free, exempt, absolve, pardonrationalize, rationaliseverb
think rationally; employ logic or reason
"When one wonders why one is doing certain things, one should rationalize"
Synonyms:
rationalize, prune, excuse, apologise, cut, apologize, justifyrationalize, rationaliseverb
remove irrational quantities from
"This function can be rationalized"
Synonyms:
rationalize, prune, excuse, apologise, cut, apologize, justifycut, 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, rationalize, 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, 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, dress
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "rationalise":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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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 | |
#22194 | slew | |
#23816 | snip | |
#26128 | shorten | |
#28687 | dilute | |
#29637 | geld | |
#31029 | apologise | |
#32728 | prune | |
#39252 | condone | |
#40610 | veer | |
#41636 | lop | |
#43009 | rationalize | |
#58771 | snub | |
#60871 | swerve | |
#74511 | absolve | |
#80199 | vindicate | |
#81833 | rationalizing | |
#82163 | abbreviate | |
#94999 | rationalise | |
#101576 | abridge |
How to use rationalise in a sentence?
There seems to be a certain amount of cloudiness down there. One minute they are quite keen - I don't know if they can afford to do the A380neo and the (new) A350, airbus have got to rationalise a few things.
You wouldn’t want to rationalise too much into a market that’s as inefficient and immature as bitcoin, but certainly there’s a reversal in momentum, the herd has probably looked at this and thought it sounded scary and shocking and it’s now the time to sell.
Airbus have got to rationalise a few things.
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