rationale

The word “rationale” has 3 syllables: ra-tion-ale

It's pronounced as /ˈræʃəˌnæl/


What is synonym and antonym for rationale?

In the thesaurus, “rationale” has 37 synonyms and 3 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for rationale along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for rationale

  • account
  • accounting
  • alibi
  • apologia
  • apology
  • appeal
  • argument
  • case
  • defense
  • excuse
  • explanation
  • exposition
  • grounds
  • guise
  • hypothesis
  • justification
  • motivation
  • motive
  • philosophy
  • plea
  • pretence
  • pretense
  • pretext
  • principle
  • rationalization
  • reason
  • reasons
  • song and dance
  • sour grapes
  • story
  • the big idea
  • the whole idea
  • theory
  • vindication
  • whatfor
  • why and wherefore
  • whyfor

Antonyms for rationale

  • discouragement
  • proof
  • reality

Meanings of rationale

  • noun
    1. An explanation of the basis or fundamental reasons for something.
    2. A justification or rationalization for something.
    3. A liturgical vestment worn by some Christian bishops of various denominations.

Example Sentences

  • The teacher explained the rationale behind the new grading system.
  • He provided a clear rationale for his decision to change the project’s direction.
  • The rationale for the policy was based on extensive research.
  • It's important to understand the rationale behind each step in the process.
  • The company's rationale for the price increase was due to rising production costs.

On this page you'll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to rationale, such as: account, accounting, alibi, apologia, apology, appeal, argument.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

ABCs

  • ABCs
  • Bible
  • abecedarian
  • accessory
  • accidence
  • account
  • acknowledgment
  • affidavit
  • affirmation
  • allegation
  • alphabet
  • amount
  • annal
  • announcement
  • article
  • articulation
  • aside
  • asseveration
  • assurance
  • authority
  • averment
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  • axiom
  • background
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  • beacon
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  • beginning
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  • belief
  • bellwether
  • blow-by-blow
  • body
  • bottom
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  • brass tacks
  • brief
  • bulletin
  • burden
  • canon
  • cap
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  • case
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  • chapter and verse
  • character
  • characterization
  • characters
  • charge
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  • circumstance
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  • clear
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  • coal-and-ice
  • comment
  • communication
  • compendium
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  • corpus
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  • definition
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  • depiction
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  • dictum
  • directory
  • doctrine
  • dogma
  • dope
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  • element
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  • essence
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  • explanation
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  • facile
  • fact
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  • faith
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  • fire and ice
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  • graphic representation
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  • groceries
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  • import
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  • justification
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  • know
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  • law
  • linguistics
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  • majuscule
  • make
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  • manual
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  • marrow
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  • meat
  • meat and potatoes
  • mention
  • minor point
  • minuscule
  • minutia
  • monograph
  • morphemes
  • morphology
  • must
  • name of the game
  • narration
  • narrative
  • nicety
  • nitty-gritty
  • nub
  • nuts and bolts
  • observation
  • origin
  • original
  • part
  • part and parcel
  • particular
  • peculiarity
  • philosophy
  • phonemes
  • pictograph
  • picture
  • pith
  • plain
  • plan
  • play by play
  • point
  • pointer
  • portion
  • portraiture
  • portrayal
  • precept
  • precondition
  • prefatory
  • preliminaries
  • preliminary
  • preparation
  • prerequisite
  • presentation
  • presentment
  • primary
  • primitive
  • primo
  • principium
  • principle
  • principles
  • print
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  • profession
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  • protestation
  • purport
  • quintessence
  • rationale
  • reason
  • recital
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  • record
  • recountal
  • rehearsal
  • relation
  • remark
  • report
  • representation
  • requirement
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  • respect
  • rock bottom
  • root
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  • rudimentary
  • rudiments
  • rule
  • run down
  • rundown
  • rune
  • schedule
  • scoop
  • score
  • sense
  • sentence structure
  • setup
  • sign
  • signal
  • significance
  • signpost
  • signs
  • simplest
  • simplex
  • simplified
  • sine qua non
  • singularity
  • sketch
  • small letter
  • soul
  • speciality
  • specialty
  • specific
  • specification
  • standard
  • staple
  • statement
  • stay
  • story
  • straightforward
  • stratification
  • strength
  • structure
  • stuff
  • subject
  • substance
  • substratal
  • substratum
  • substructure
  • sum total
  • summarization
  • summary
  • support
  • syllabary
  • symbols
  • syntax
  • tab
  • tagmemics
  • take
  • tale
  • technicality
  • telltale
  • tenet
  • tenor
  • testimony
  • the book
  • the numbers
  • the picture
  • the whole picture
  • theme
  • theorem
  • thing
  • thrust
  • tip-off
  • trait
  • trivia
  • triviality
  • type
  • uncial
  • uncomplex
  • uncomplicated
  • underlying
  • underpinning
  • understructure
  • upshot
  • utterance
  • vade mecum
  • ventilation
  • verbalization
  • version
  • vignette
  • virtuality
  • vital part
  • vocalization
  • voice
  • way of it
  • whole story
  • word
  • writeup
  • yarn

keystone

palliation

  • abatement
  • abetment
  • acknowledgement
  • acknowledgment
  • advancement
  • advice
  • aid
  • alibi
  • allayment
  • alleviation
  • amelioration
  • apology
  • appeasement
  • assist
  • assistance
  • assuagement
  • atonement
  • attendance
  • attention
  • backing
  • balm
  • benefaction
  • beneficence
  • boost
  • break
  • breather
  • care
  • charity
  • cheer
  • color
  • comfort
  • comforting
  • confession
  • consolation
  • contentment
  • cop-out
  • counsel
  • cure
  • defense
  • deliverance
  • diversion
  • ease
  • easement
  • encouragement
  • excuse
  • extenuation
  • extrication
  • facilitation
  • favor
  • fix
  • forwarding
  • furtherance
  • furthering
  • guidance
  • guise
  • hand
  • hand-holding
  • happiness
  • help
  • helping hand
  • justification
  • kindness
  • leg up
  • letup
  • lift
  • lightening
  • maintenance
  • mentoring
  • mitigation
  • mollification
  • nurturance
  • out
  • palliative
  • patronage
  • philanthropy
  • plea
  • pretence
  • pretense
  • pretext
  • promotion
  • quick fix
  • rationale
  • rationalization
  • reason
  • refreshment
  • release
  • relief
  • remission
  • reprieve
  • respite
  • rest
  • restfulness
  • satisfaction
  • service
  • softening
  • solace
  • sponsorship
  • succor
  • support
  • sustenance
  • vindication
  • whitewash

palliative

  • abatement
  • absolution
  • account
  • acquittal
  • advocacy
  • aid
  • alky
  • allayment
  • alleviating
  • alleviation
  • amelioration
  • amendatory
  • anesthetic
  • anodyne
  • answer
  • antidotal
  • antidote
  • apologia
  • apology
  • appeasement
  • approval
  • argument
  • assistance
  • assuagement
  • balm
  • balsamic
  • basis
  • beneficial
  • benign
  • booze
  • break
  • breather
  • calming
  • canned heat
  • cheer
  • cocktail
  • comfort
  • comforting
  • confirmation
  • consolation
  • consolatory
  • consoling
  • contentment
  • cop-out
  • corrective
  • cosmetic
  • counteracting
  • cream
  • curative
  • cure
  • cure-all
  • defense
  • deliverance
  • demulcent
  • diminished responsibility
  • disciplinary
  • diversion
  • drink
  • ease
  • easement
  • easing
  • elixir
  • embrocation
  • emendatory
  • ethanol
  • exculpation
  • exoneration
  • explanation
  • extenuation
  • extenuative
  • extrication
  • firewater
  • fix
  • good point
  • grounds
  • hand
  • handout
  • happiness
  • hard stuff
  • harmless
  • healing
  • healthful
  • healthy
  • help
  • helpful
  • hootch
  • hypnotic
  • idea
  • innocuous
  • inoffensive
  • intoxicant
  • lenitive
  • letup
  • lift
  • lightening
  • liniment
  • liquor
  • maintenance
  • medicinal
  • medicine
  • methanol
  • mitigation
  • mollification
  • mollifying
  • moonshine
  • narcotic
  • nonfatal
  • nonlethal
  • nonpoisonous
  • nontoxic
  • nonvenomous
  • ointment
  • opiate
  • pacifier
  • pacifying
  • palliation
  • panacea
  • partial excuse
  • penal
  • plea
  • point of character
  • preparation
  • pretext
  • punitive
  • qualification
  • quick fix
  • rationale
  • rationalization
  • reassuring
  • rebuttal
  • rectifier
  • red-eye
  • reformatory
  • refreshment
  • rehabilitative
  • relaxing
  • release
  • relief
  • relieving
  • remedial
  • remedy
  • remedying
  • remission
  • reply
  • reprieve
  • respite
  • response
  • rest
  • restfulness
  • restorative
  • rotgut
  • salubrious
  • salutary
  • salve
  • salving
  • sanctification
  • satisfaction
  • sauce
  • security blanket
  • sedative
  • smoke
  • softening
  • solace
  • solution
  • song and dance
  • soother
  • soporific
  • spirits
  • story
  • succor
  • support
  • sustenance
  • therapeutic
  • therapy
  • tipple
  • toddy
  • tranquilizer
  • tranquilizing
  • tranquillizer
  • unguent
  • validation
  • vindication
  • warming
  • warrant
  • wash
  • whatfor
  • wherefore
  • whitewashing
  • whole idea
  • wholesome
  • why and wherefore

illumination

  • afterglow
  • analysis
  • annotation
  • aureola
  • aureole
  • aurora
  • awareness
  • beam
  • blaze
  • brightening
  • brightness
  • brilliance
  • brilliancy
  • burnish
  • candor
  • caution
  • caveat
  • clarification
  • comment
  • commentary
  • construction
  • daylight
  • dazzle
  • deciphering
  • decoding
  • definition
  • demonstration
  • disentanglement
  • edification
  • education
  • effulgence
  • elucidation
  • enactment
  • enlightenment
  • epexegesis
  • exegesis
  • explanation
  • explication
  • exposition
  • fire
  • flame
  • flare
  • flash
  • flicker
  • fluorescence
  • glare
  • gleam
  • glimmer
  • glint
  • glisten
  • glitter
  • gloss
  • glow
  • halo
  • illustration
  • incandescence
  • information
  • insight
  • inspiration
  • instruction
  • interpretation
  • justification
  • lambency
  • light
  • lighting
  • lightness
  • luminance
  • luminescence
  • luminosity
  • luminousness
  • luster
  • lustre
  • lustrousness
  • meaning
  • moonlight
  • paraphrase
  • perception
  • polish
  • radiance
  • rationale
  • rationalization
  • ray
  • reasoning
  • reflection
  • refulgence
  • restatement
  • revelation
  • road map
  • scintillation
  • shaft
  • sheen
  • shimmer
  • shine
  • shininess
  • sparkle
  • splendor
  • streak
  • stream
  • sunbeam
  • sunlight
  • sunshine
  • teaching
  • translation
  • twinkle
  • unscrambling
  • warning

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