rationalist
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.56 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who follows the philosophy of rationalism.
Example Sentences
- "“He says,” replied Lord Peter, “that he believes Hannah to be a sincerely religious woman. He has sat beside her in chapel and shared her hymn-book.” “But that may be the merest hypocrisy,” said Miss Murchison, rather warmly, for she was militantly rationalist. “I don’t trust these unctuous people.”"
- "Some rationalists were in touch with Oxford philosophers, including Toby Ord and William MacAskill, the founders of the effective-altruism movement, which studied how to do the most good for humanity (and, by extension, how to avoid ending it)."