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rationaliser

rationaliser is the alternative form of rationalizer.

Meaning of rationalizer

Noun

rationalizer (plural rationalizers)

  1. One who rationalizes.
    • Another factor that makes it difficult to forecast our future happiness is that most of us are rationalizers.2008 April 22, Claudia Dreifus, “The Smiling Professor”, in New York Times

Forms of rationaliser

pluralrationalisers

Origin of rationaliser

From rationalise + -er.

Questions about rationaliser

What is rationaliser the alternative form of?
Rationaliser is the alternative form of rationalizer.

Words near rationaliser in the dictionary

  1. rationalisation hamster
  2. rationalisation hamsters
  3. rationalisations
  4. rationalise
  5. rationalised
  6. rationaliser
  7. rationalisers
  8. rationalises
  9. rationalising
  10. rationalism
  11. rationalisms

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