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rationalize::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cut, prune, rationalise |
| Type of | get rid of, extinguish, eliminate, do away with |
rationalize::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | rationalise |
| Type of | think, cogitate, cerebrate |
| Derivation | rationalization |
When one wonders why one is doing certain things, one should rationalize.
rationalize::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | rationalise |
| Type of | organise, organize |
| Derivation | rationalization |
We rationalized the factory's production and raised profits.
rationalize::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | apologise, apologize, excuse, rationalise |
| Type of | support, fend for, defend |
| Has types | gloss, mitigate, color, colour, palliate, extenuate, plead |
| Derivation | rationalization |
rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior.
he rationalized his lack of success.
rationalize::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | rationalise |
| Type of | modify, change, alter |
| Derivation | rationalization |
This function can be rationalized.
Examples of rationalize
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There's no risk-free way to do that, much as we've all tried to rationalize one.
From the buffalonews.com
But I can always rationalize a reason for getting something that makes me smile.
From the washingtonpost.com
Guys like Owens have an alibi in their back pocket to rationalize their actions.
From the usatoday.com
My kids are what I have lived for and now my brain was trying to rationalize it.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
Her first instinct was to deny, consider covering it up and rationalize it away.
From the psychcentral.com
You can rationalize it, I suppose, by saying nobody knows what their future is.
From the charlotteobserver.com
The county was trying to rationalize its street naming and numbering back then.
From the sacbee.com
Even Nixon never used American troops abroad to rationalize political ambition.
From the newsweek.com
This shows people can rationalize their own behavior with our without religion.
From the economist.com
- Apologize: defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success"
- Cut: weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"
- Structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results; "We rationalized the factory's production and raised profits"
- Think rationally; employ logic or reason; "When one wonders why one is doing certain things, one should rationalize"
- Remove irrational quantities from; "This function can be rationalized"
- (rationalization) the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason
- (Rationalization (economics)) In economics, rationalization is an attempt to change a pre-existing ad hoc workflow into one that is based on a set of published rules. There is a tendency in modern times to quantify experience, knowledge, and work. ...
- (Rationalization (psychology)) In psychology and logic, rationalization (or making excuses) is a defense mechanism in which perceived controversial behaviors or feelings are explained in a rational or logical manner to avoid the true explanation, to differentiate from the original deterministic ...
- (Rationalization (sociology)) In sociology, rationalization (or rationalisation) is the process where by an increasing number of social actions become based on considerations of teleological efficiency or calculation rather than on motivations derived from morality, emotion, custom, or tradition ...
