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?
Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis:
Our government is eager to rationalize the pension system (for example, by limiting early retirement), proceed with partial privatisation of public assets, ... create a fully independent tax commission.
You could rationalize that it helps the Russians by obfuscating who was actually responsible.
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.
Guantanamo has been an enormous recruitment tool for organizations like ISIL, it's part of how they rationalize and justify their demented, sick perpetration of violence on innocent people. And we can keep the American people safe while shutting down that operation.
With Uber and Lyft becoming public companies, shareholders will expect them to rationalize prices on rides toward sustainable levels.
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