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NOUN | 1 | reason, ground | A rational motive for a belief or action |
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2 | reason | An explanation of the cause of some phenomenon | |
3 | reason, understanding, intellect | The capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination | |
4 | reason, rationality, reasonableness | The state of having good sense and sound judgment | |
5 | reason, cause, grounds | A justification for something existing or happening | |
6 | reason | A fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion | |
VERB | 1 | reason, reason out, conclude | Decide by reasoning |
2 | reason, argue | Present reasons and arguments | |
3 | reason | Think logically |
Sounds | riy'zahn |
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Rhymes | Aachen, Aaron, abandon, and 2504 more rhymes in ahn at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | A rational motive for a belief or action. |
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Examples | "the reason that war was declared" |
Synonyms | ground |
Narrower | occasion; score, account; why, wherefore |
Broader | rational motive |
Verbs | reason |
Meaning | An explanation of the cause of some phenomenon. |
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Examples | "the reason a steady state was never reached was that the back pressure built up too slowly" |
Broader | explanation, account |
Meaning | The capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination. |
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Examples | "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil" |
Synonyms | understanding, intellect |
Broader | faculty, mental faculty, module |
Verbs | reason; reason; reason |
Meaning | The state of having good sense and sound judgment. |
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Examples | "he had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions" |
Synonyms | rationality, reasonableness |
Broader | sanity, saneness |
Verbs | reason; reason |
Meaning | A justification for something existing or happening. |
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Examples | "they had good reason to rejoice" |
Synonyms | cause, grounds |
Broader | justification |
Meaning | A fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion. |
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Examples | "there is reason to believe he is lying" |
Narrower | indication; contraindication |
Broader | fact |
Meaning | Decide by reasoning. Draw or come to a conclusion. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
Model | They reason that there was a traffic accident |
Examples | "We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house" |
Synonyms | reason out, conclude |
Narrower | induce; deduce, infer, deduct, derive; syllogize, syllogise; find, feel; deduce, infer; gather; generalize, generalise, extrapolate, infer |
Broader | think, cogitate, cerebrate |
Nouns | reason; reason; reason; reasoner |
Meaning | Present reasons and arguments. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
Model | Sam wants to reason with Sue; Sam and Sue reason |
Synonyms | argue |
Narrower | re-argue; expostulate; defend, support, fend for |
Broader | present, represent, lay out |
Nouns | reason; reasoner; reason |
Meaning | Think logically. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
Examples | "The children must learn to reason" |
Entailed by | solve, work out, figure out, puzzle out, lick, work |
Narrower | rationalize away, rationalise away; theorize; theorize; ratiocinate; calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure; categorize, categorise; speculate |
Broader | think, cogitate, cerebrate |
Nouns | reason; reasoner; reasoning |