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adj
noun
adj
- inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense
- so unreasonable as to invite derision
- Dealing with absurdism.
- Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; silly.
- Having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; meaningless; lacking order or value.
noun
- a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless
- (philosophy, often preceded by the) The opposition between the human search for meaning in life and the inability to find any; the state or condition in which man exists in an irrational universe and his life has no meaning outside of his existence.
adj
- consistent with or based on or using reason
- of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind
- having its source in or being guided by the intellect (as distinguished from experience or emotion)
- capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers
- (algebraic geometry) Of a point on an algebraic variety over a field: whose coordinates belong to the field in question (in contrast to those points of the variety which are only defined over the algebraic closure of the base field).
- Logically sound; not self-contradictory or otherwise absurd.
- (of a person or personal characteristics) Healthy or balanced intellectually; exhibiting reasonableness.
- (arithmetic) Of a number, capable of being expressed as the ratio of two integers.
- (algebraic geometry) Of a variety: (informally) geometrically simple almost everywhere; (formally) birationally equivalent to projective space
- Capable of reasoning.
- (algebraic geometry) Of a function between varieties: acting as a morphism on an open subset of its domain.
- (algebra) Of an algebraic expression in indeterminates, or more generally a function: capable of being expressed as the ratio of two polynomials.
noun
adj
- Contrary to reason; lacking an appropriate or sufficient reason; irrational.
- Lacking the ability to reason.
- (economics, social sciences, public policy) Not based on one's own interests; inconsistent with utility maximization.
- (often philosophy) Not within the domain of what can be understood or analyzed by reason; outside the competence of the rules of reason.
noun
verb
adj
- without a basis in reason or fact
- not having a job
- not in active use
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- silly or trivial
- not in action or at work
- not yielding a return
- Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
- Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
- Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
- Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
noun
verb
- be idle; exist in a changeless situation
- run disconnected or idle
- (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
- (transitive) To cause (an engine) to idle(3)
- (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
- (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
adj
- without a basis in reason or fact
- in a state of extreme emotion
- located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
- fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
- in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated
- (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
- without civilizing influences
- involving risk or danger
- marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
- intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
- (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
- deviating widely from an intended course
- talking or behaving irrationally
- Furious; very angry.
- Very inaccurate; far off the mark.
- (electrical engineering) Of unregulated and varying frequency.
- Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
- Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
- (nautical, of a vessel) Hard to steer.
- (slang) Very unexpected; wildly surprising; crazy, diabolical.
- Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
- Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
- Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
- (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
- Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
- Being in the wild, by any pathway (whether by being of the wild type, by being feral since birth, or by being feral after escape from domesticated life).
- Unrestrained or uninhibited.
- Especially, being of the wild type: being of an unbroken ancestral line of undomesticated animals, as opposed to being feral, being an undomesticated animal whose ancestors were domesticated.
- Enthusiastic.
- (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
- From or relating to wild creatures.
noun
- a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
- a wild primitive state untouched by civilization
- Alternative form of weald.
- (chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.
- Something that is able to stand in for others, such as a particular playing card in a game.
- (singular, with "the") The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
adv
verb
adj
verb
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
- acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing
- (intransitive) To express regret that a certain event has occurred.
- (intransitive, often followed by “for”) To make an apology or excuse; to acknowledge some fault or offense, with expression of regret for it, by way of amends
verb
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
- accept an excuse for
- ask for permission to be released from an engagement
- grant exemption or release to
- excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with
- serve as a reason or cause or justification of
- (transitive) To forgive; to pardon; to overlook.
- To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.
- (transitive) To provide an excuse for; to justify.
- (transitive) To allow to leave, or release from any obligation.
noun
- a poor example
- a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.
- a note explaining an absence
- (often with preceding negative adjective, especially sorry, poor, or lame) An example of something that is substandard or of inferior quality.
- (countable, uncountable) An explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault.
- (law) A defense to a criminal or civil charge wherein the accused party admits to doing acts for which legal consequences would normally be appropriate, but asserts that special circumstances relieve that party of culpability for having done those acts.
verb
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
- think rationally; employ logic or reason
- remove irrational quantities from
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results
- Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of rationalize.
verb
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
- think rationally; employ logic or reason
- remove irrational quantities from
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results
- To make something rational or more rational.
- (mathematics) To remove radicals, without changing the value of an expression or the roots of an equation.
- To structure something along modern, efficient and systematic lines, or according to scientific principles. This often includes eliminating duplication and grouping like or similar items.
- To justify a discreditable act, or irrational behaviour.
adj
- not based on reason or evidence
- unable to see
- unable or unwilling to perceive or understand
- (not comparable) Unable to see, or only partially able to see.
- (horticulture) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
- Unintelligible or illegible.
- (not comparable) Without any prior knowledge.
- (not comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless.
- (comparable) Failing to recognize, acknowledge or perceive.
- (LGBTQ, slang) Uncircumcised.
- (not comparable, metalworking, construction, of a fastener) Able to be fixed without access to one end.
- (Of a pimple) not having a well-defined head.
- (not comparable, of a place) Having little or no visibility.
- (sciences) Using blinded study design, wherein information is purposely limited to prevent bias.
- (in certain phrases, chiefly in the negative) Smallest or slightest.
- (not comparable) Having no openings for light or passage; both dark and exitless.
- (not comparable) Unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.
noun
- a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
- a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)
- something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
- people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
- A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
- (poker) A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) No score.
- A movable covering for a window to keep out light, made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
- A hiding place.
- A place where people can hide in order to observe wildlife.
- (poker) A player who is forced to pay such a bet.
- Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge, deception.
- (rugby, colloquial) The blindside.
- (military) A blindage.
verb
- render unable to see
- make blind by putting the eyes out
- make dim by comparison or conceal
- (transitive) To make temporarily or permanently blind.
- To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
- To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
- (informal, obsolete except when paired, especially eff and blind) To curse, swear, use foul language
adv
adj
noun
- the art of logical disputation (especially if specious)
- a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy
- One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious.
- A type of dialogue or argument where the participants do not have any reasonable goal. The aim is to argue for the sake of conflict, and often to see who can yell the loudest.
adj
- not capable of being decided as following or not following from the axioms of a logical system
- (mathematics, computing theory) Incapable of being algorithmically decided in finite time. For example, a set of strings is undecidable if it is impossible to program a computer (even one with infinite memory) to determine whether or not specified strings are included.
- (mathematics) (of a WFF) logically independent from the axioms of a given theory; i.e., that it can never be either proved or disproved (i.e., have its negation proved) on the basis of the axioms of the given theory. (Note: this latter definition is independent of any time bounds or computability issues, i.e., more Platonic.)
adj
- making no sense; illogical
- (of a person or animal) disoriented
- embarrassed
- (of a person) unable to think clearly or understand
- chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity
- perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
- lacking orderly continuity
verb
adj
- capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning
- marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts
- based on known statements or events or conditions
- capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner
- (not comparable) Of or pertaining to logic.
- (computing) Relating to the conceptual model of a system rather than its physical expression
- Reasonable.
- (not comparable) In agreement with the principles of logic; sequacious.
noun
- the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason
- (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation
- systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale
- the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening
- Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of rationalization.
noun
- the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason
- (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation
- systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale
- the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening
- (economics) The reorganization of a company or organization in order to improve its efficiency through the reallocation of resources and changes in its workforce.
- (psychiatry) The concealment of true motivation in some non-threatening way.
- (mathematics) The simplification of an expression without changing its value.
- A statement of one's motives, or of the causes of some event.
noun
- The quality of not making logical sense or of not being logically connected.
- (countable) Something incoherent; something that does not make logical sense or is not logically connected.
- (psychiatry) Thinking or speech that is so disorganized that it is essentially inapprehensible to others.
- nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible
- lack of cohesion or clarity or organization
adj
- involving deductive reasoning from a general principle to a necessary effect; not supported by fact
- based on hypothesis or theory rather than experiment
- (linguistics, conlanging) Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages.
- Presumed without analysis.
- (logic) Based on hypothesis and theory rather than experiment or empirical evidence.
- Self-evident, intuitively obvious.
adv
noun
- any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments
- Any formal system of reasoning that arrives at a truth by the exchange of logical arguments.
- a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction
- (Hegelianism, Marxism) development by way of overcoming internal contradictions
- A contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction.
adj
adj
- showing reason or sound judgment
- aware intuitively or intellectually of something sensed
- able to feel or perceive
- readily perceived by the senses
- Characterized more by usefulness, practicality, or comfort than by attractiveness, formality, or fashionableness, especially of clothing.
- (especially formally) Able to be sensed by the senses or the psyche; able to be perceived.
- Acting with or showing good sense; able to make good judgements based on reason or wisdom, or reflecting such ability.
verb
adj
noun
noun
- the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
- returning to a former state
- The power or liberty of passing back.
- (property law) The right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
- The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
verb
- go back to a statistical means
- go back to a previous state
- get worse or fall back to a previous condition
- go back to bad behavior
- (psychology) To re-develop behavior one had previously grown out of, particularly a behavior left behind in childhood.
- (transitive) To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past.
- (transitive, statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
- (intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
- (intransitive, medicine) To reduce in severity or size (as of a tumor), without reaching total remission.
- (intransitive, astronomy) To move in the retrograde direction.
adj
- not marked by the use of reason
- lacking the thinking capacity characteristic of a conscious being
- requiring little mental effort
- devoid of intelligence or thought
- not mindful or attentive
- Lacking a mind.
- Showing a lack of forethought or sense.
- Having no sensible meaning or purpose.
- (of a thing done) Overly repetitive and unchallenging, not requiring any careful attention or providing any significant stimulation.
- Heedless.
adj
- not marked by the use of reason
- (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment
- unresponsive to stimulation
- serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
- Without feeling or desire to work; deprived of sensation.
- Without a discernible meaning or purpose, especially of a violent or evil act.
- Lacking meaning or purpose; without common sense.
- Without consideration, awareness or sound judgement
noun
verb
noun
- the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason
- (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation
- systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale
- the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening
- Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of rationalization.
noun
- the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason
- (mathematics) the simplification of an expression or equation by eliminating radicals without changing the value of the expression or the roots of the equation
- systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale
- the organization of a business according to scientific principles of management in order to increase efficiency
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening
- (economics) The reorganization of a company or organization in order to improve its efficiency through the reallocation of resources and changes in its workforce.
- (psychiatry) The concealment of true motivation in some non-threatening way.
- (mathematics) The simplification of an expression without changing its value.
- A statement of one's motives, or of the causes of some event.
noun
- The quality of not making logical sense or of not being logically connected.
- (countable) Something incoherent; something that does not make logical sense or is not logically connected.
- (psychiatry) Thinking or speech that is so disorganized that it is essentially inapprehensible to others.
- nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible
- lack of cohesion or clarity or organization
noun
- any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments
- Any formal system of reasoning that arrives at a truth by the exchange of logical arguments.
- a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction
- (Hegelianism, Marxism) development by way of overcoming internal contradictions
- A contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction.
adj
noun
- the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
- returning to a former state
- The power or liberty of passing back.
- (property law) The right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.
- The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.
verb
- go back to a statistical means
- go back to a previous state
- get worse or fall back to a previous condition
- go back to bad behavior
- (psychology) To re-develop behavior one had previously grown out of, particularly a behavior left behind in childhood.
- (transitive) To interrogate a person in a state of trance about forgotten elements of their past.
- (transitive, statistics) To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.
- (intransitive) To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.
- (intransitive, medicine) To reduce in severity or size (as of a tumor), without reaching total remission.
- (intransitive, astronomy) To move in the retrograde direction.
verb
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
- acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing
- (intransitive) To express regret that a certain event has occurred.
- (intransitive, often followed by “for”) To make an apology or excuse; to acknowledge some fault or offense, with expression of regret for it, by way of amends
verb
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
- accept an excuse for
- ask for permission to be released from an engagement
- grant exemption or release to
- excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with
- serve as a reason or cause or justification of
- (transitive) To forgive; to pardon; to overlook.
- To relieve of an imputation by apology or defense; to make apology for as not seriously evil; to ask pardon or indulgence for.
- (transitive) To provide an excuse for; to justify.
- (transitive) To allow to leave, or release from any obligation.
noun
- a poor example
- a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.
- a note explaining an absence
- (often with preceding negative adjective, especially sorry, poor, or lame) An example of something that is substandard or of inferior quality.
- (countable, uncountable) An explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault.
- (law) A defense to a criminal or civil charge wherein the accused party admits to doing acts for which legal consequences would normally be appropriate, but asserts that special circumstances relieve that party of culpability for having done those acts.
verb
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
- think rationally; employ logic or reason
- remove irrational quantities from
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results
- Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of rationalize.
verb
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
- think rationally; employ logic or reason
- remove irrational quantities from
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results
- To make something rational or more rational.
- (mathematics) To remove radicals, without changing the value of an expression or the roots of an equation.
- To structure something along modern, efficient and systematic lines, or according to scientific principles. This often includes eliminating duplication and grouping like or similar items.
- To justify a discreditable act, or irrational behaviour.
verb
adj
noun
adj
noun
adj
- inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense
- so unreasonable as to invite derision
- Dealing with absurdism.
- Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; silly.
- Having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; meaningless; lacking order or value.
noun
- a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless
- (philosophy, often preceded by the) The opposition between the human search for meaning in life and the inability to find any; the state or condition in which man exists in an irrational universe and his life has no meaning outside of his existence.
adj
- consistent with or based on or using reason
- of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind
- having its source in or being guided by the intellect (as distinguished from experience or emotion)
- capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers
- (algebraic geometry) Of a point on an algebraic variety over a field: whose coordinates belong to the field in question (in contrast to those points of the variety which are only defined over the algebraic closure of the base field).
- Logically sound; not self-contradictory or otherwise absurd.
- (of a person or personal characteristics) Healthy or balanced intellectually; exhibiting reasonableness.
- (arithmetic) Of a number, capable of being expressed as the ratio of two integers.
- (algebraic geometry) Of a variety: (informally) geometrically simple almost everywhere; (formally) birationally equivalent to projective space
- Capable of reasoning.
- (algebraic geometry) Of a function between varieties: acting as a morphism on an open subset of its domain.
- (algebra) Of an algebraic expression in indeterminates, or more generally a function: capable of being expressed as the ratio of two polynomials.
noun
adj
- Contrary to reason; lacking an appropriate or sufficient reason; irrational.
- Lacking the ability to reason.
- (economics, social sciences, public policy) Not based on one's own interests; inconsistent with utility maximization.
- (often philosophy) Not within the domain of what can be understood or analyzed by reason; outside the competence of the rules of reason.
adj
- without a basis in reason or fact
- not having a job
- not in active use
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- silly or trivial
- not in action or at work
- not yielding a return
- Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
- Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.
- Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
- Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
noun
verb
- be idle; exist in a changeless situation
- run disconnected or idle
- (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
- (transitive) To cause (an engine) to idle(3)
- (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
- (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.
adj
- without a basis in reason or fact
- in a state of extreme emotion
- located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
- fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
- in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated
- (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
- without civilizing influences
- involving risk or danger
- marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
- intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
- (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
- deviating widely from an intended course
- talking or behaving irrationally
- Furious; very angry.
- Very inaccurate; far off the mark.
- (electrical engineering) Of unregulated and varying frequency.
- Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
- Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.
- (nautical, of a vessel) Hard to steer.
- (slang) Very unexpected; wildly surprising; crazy, diabolical.
- Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
- Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
- Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
- (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
- Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
- Being in the wild, by any pathway (whether by being of the wild type, by being feral since birth, or by being feral after escape from domesticated life).
- Unrestrained or uninhibited.
- Especially, being of the wild type: being of an unbroken ancestral line of undomesticated animals, as opposed to being feral, being an undomesticated animal whose ancestors were domesticated.
- Enthusiastic.
- (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
- From or relating to wild creatures.
noun
- a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
- a wild primitive state untouched by civilization
- Alternative form of weald.
- (chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.
- Something that is able to stand in for others, such as a particular playing card in a game.
- (singular, with "the") The undomesticated state of a wild animal.
adv
verb
adj
adj
- not based on reason or evidence
- unable to see
- unable or unwilling to perceive or understand
- (not comparable) Unable to see, or only partially able to see.
- (horticulture) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
- Unintelligible or illegible.
- (not comparable) Without any prior knowledge.
- (not comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless.
- (comparable) Failing to recognize, acknowledge or perceive.
- (LGBTQ, slang) Uncircumcised.
- (not comparable, metalworking, construction, of a fastener) Able to be fixed without access to one end.
- (Of a pimple) not having a well-defined head.
- (not comparable, of a place) Having little or no visibility.
- (sciences) Using blinded study design, wherein information is purposely limited to prevent bias.
- (in certain phrases, chiefly in the negative) Smallest or slightest.
- (not comparable) Having no openings for light or passage; both dark and exitless.
- (not comparable) Unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.
noun
- a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
- a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)
- something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
- people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
- A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
- (poker) A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
- (baseball, slang, 1800s) No score.
- A movable covering for a window to keep out light, made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
- A hiding place.
- A place where people can hide in order to observe wildlife.
- (poker) A player who is forced to pay such a bet.
- Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge, deception.
- (rugby, colloquial) The blindside.
- (military) A blindage.
verb
- render unable to see
- make blind by putting the eyes out
- make dim by comparison or conceal
- (transitive) To make temporarily or permanently blind.
- To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
- To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
- (informal, obsolete except when paired, especially eff and blind) To curse, swear, use foul language
adv
adj
noun
- the art of logical disputation (especially if specious)
- a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy
- One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious.
- A type of dialogue or argument where the participants do not have any reasonable goal. The aim is to argue for the sake of conflict, and often to see who can yell the loudest.
adj
- not capable of being decided as following or not following from the axioms of a logical system
- (mathematics, computing theory) Incapable of being algorithmically decided in finite time. For example, a set of strings is undecidable if it is impossible to program a computer (even one with infinite memory) to determine whether or not specified strings are included.
- (mathematics) (of a WFF) logically independent from the axioms of a given theory; i.e., that it can never be either proved or disproved (i.e., have its negation proved) on the basis of the axioms of the given theory. (Note: this latter definition is independent of any time bounds or computability issues, i.e., more Platonic.)
adj
- making no sense; illogical
- (of a person or animal) disoriented
- embarrassed
- (of a person) unable to think clearly or understand
- chaotic, jumbled or muddled
- mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- having lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity
- perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment
- lacking orderly continuity
verb
adj
- capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning
- marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts
- based on known statements or events or conditions
- capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner
- (not comparable) Of or pertaining to logic.
- (computing) Relating to the conceptual model of a system rather than its physical expression
- Reasonable.
- (not comparable) In agreement with the principles of logic; sequacious.
adj
- involving deductive reasoning from a general principle to a necessary effect; not supported by fact
- based on hypothesis or theory rather than experiment
- (linguistics, conlanging) Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages.
- Presumed without analysis.
- (logic) Based on hypothesis and theory rather than experiment or empirical evidence.
- Self-evident, intuitively obvious.
adv
adj
- showing reason or sound judgment
- aware intuitively or intellectually of something sensed
- able to feel or perceive
- readily perceived by the senses
- Characterized more by usefulness, practicality, or comfort than by attractiveness, formality, or fashionableness, especially of clothing.
- (especially formally) Able to be sensed by the senses or the psyche; able to be perceived.
- Acting with or showing good sense; able to make good judgements based on reason or wisdom, or reflecting such ability.
adj
- not marked by the use of reason
- lacking the thinking capacity characteristic of a conscious being
- requiring little mental effort
- devoid of intelligence or thought
- not mindful or attentive
- Lacking a mind.
- Showing a lack of forethought or sense.
- Having no sensible meaning or purpose.
- (of a thing done) Overly repetitive and unchallenging, not requiring any careful attention or providing any significant stimulation.
- Heedless.
adj
- not marked by the use of reason
- (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment
- unresponsive to stimulation
- serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
- Without feeling or desire to work; deprived of sensation.
- Without a discernible meaning or purpose, especially of a violent or evil act.
- Lacking meaning or purpose; without common sense.
- Without consideration, awareness or sound judgement