English-French translations for irrational

• irrationnel
  Ce que veulent les Américains est irrationnel. What the Americans want is irrational.
  La décision du président Bush de frapper l'acier de droits douaniers est irrationnelle. President Bush's decision to impose steel tariffs is irrational.
  L'opposition des États-Unis à la Cour est absolument irrationnelle. The United States' opposition to the Court is totally irrational.
• irrationnelle
  La décision du président Bush de frapper l'acier de droits douaniers est irrationnelle. President Bush's decision to impose steel tariffs is irrational.
  L'opposition des États-Unis à la Cour est absolument irrationnelle. The United States' opposition to the Court is totally irrational.
  L’approche irrationnelle adopterait une optique différente. The irrational approach would take a different view.

Definition of irrational

• Not rational; unfounded or nonsensical
• Of a real number, that cannot be written as the ratio of two integers
• A real number that can not be expressed as the quotient of two integers, an irrational number

Examples

• an irrational decision
• The number π is irrational

Related words

• irrationally
• irrationalist
• irrationality
• irrationalism
• irrational number
• sudden irrational act
• set of irrational numbers