Definitions

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  • adjective Partly rational; employing a certain amount of reasoning.

Etymologies

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semi- +‎ rational

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Examples

  • The story starts out small and semirational, but each successive version gets a little more elaborate.

    Change Your Reality, Change Your Life Robin McKnight 2004

  • It is difficult, however, to find an even semirational explanation for the reckless destruction of the natural environment throughout the once Communist-ruled societies.

    Out of Control Zbigniew Brzezinski 1993

  • You want even semirational, then get them out of my sight!

    Cold Noses Warm Kisses Stewardson, Dawn 1992

  • Malone said peevishly, beginning to discover himself capable of semirational English speech.

    Brain Twister Laurence M. Janifer 1967

  • Malone said peevishly, beginning to discover himself capable of semirational English speech.

    That Sweet Little Old Lady Randall Garrett 1957

  • Another semirational period occurred during some excitement or danger that centered around him.

    The Sky Is Falling Lester Del Rey 1954

  • To the 'Millo-cracy' so-called, to the Working Aristocracy, steeped too deep in mere ignoble Mammonism, and as yet all unconscious of its noble destinies, as yet but an irrational or semirational giant, struggling to awake some soul in itself, -- the world will have much to say, reproachfully, reprovingly, admonishingly.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

  •  assuming that he is a fairly rational-at times at least-$ semirational  person, we would expect that he had normal brain functions.

    TEDBUNDY Michaud, S G & Aynesworth H 1989

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