Meanings
rationable1
- not comparableSuitable for being rationed.
Stocks fell 60 percent in two months to 35000 tons of rationable meat.
2002, Kevin Smith, Conflict Over Convoys
rationable2
comparative more rationable · superlative most rationable
- archaicSynonym of rational or reasonable.
Instinctive drives are, in this sense, rationable; they are admitted, by the mature individual, to influence on his behavior only on condition of contributing to the going program of action.
1952 December, William Ernest Hocking, “Problems of World Order in the Light of Recent Philosophical Discussion”, in The American Political Science Review, volume XLVI, number 4, Menasha, Wis.: George Banta Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1125Synonyms: rational or reasonable
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSynonym of rational or reasonable.
Origin
rationable · adjective
From ration + -able. Piecewise doublet of reasonable.
Full word history & related roots →rationable · adjective
- Classical Latinratiōnābilis
- Middle Englishracionable
- Englishrationable
From Middle English racionable, a learned borrowing from Classical Latin ratiōnābilis. Doublet of reasonable.
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