Not rational; without the faculty of reason; void of understanding; unreasoning.Without the quality of reason; contrary to reason; illogical; unreasonable: as, irrational motives; an irrational project.In mathematics: In arithmetic, not capable of being exactly expressed by a vulgar fraction, proper or improper; surd.In translations of Euclid, and cognate writings, at once incommensurable with the assumed unit and not having its square commensurable with that of the unit. This is the peculiar meaning given by Euclid to α%27λογος, though Plato uses it in sense , above.In algebra, noting a quantity involving a variable raised to a fractional power; or. in a wider sense, noting a quantity not rational, not a sum of products of constants and of variables into one another or into themselves.In Greek prosody, incapable of measurement in terms of the fundamental or primary time or metrical unit.n. That which is devoid of reason, as one of the lower animals.n. A prime number.n. In mathematics, an irrational number, that is, the mark of a cut which separates all rational numbers into two classes, the first having no greatest number, the second no least.