Difference between Lucid and Rational

What is the difference between Lucid and Rational?

Lucid as an adjective is clear; easily understood while Rational as an adjective is reasonable; not absurd, foolish, emotional, or fanciful.

Lucid

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: clear; easily understood mentally rational; sane bright, luminous, translucent or transparent

Example sentence: Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their predecessors. They studied meter with Ovid, plot construction with Homer, comedy with Aristophanes; they honed their prose style by absorbing the lucid sentences of Montaigne and Samuel Johnson.

Rational

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Reasonable; not absurd, foolish, emotional, or fanciful.Capable of reasoning.Of a number, capable of being expressed as the ratio of two integers.Of an algebraic expression, capable of being expressed as the ratio of two polynomials.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A rational number: a number that can be expressed as the quotient of two integers.

Example sentence: The lesson of my field, behavioral economics, is that we need to understand the ways in which we differ from the rational human assumed in standard economic theory.

We hope you now know whether to use Lucid or Rational in your sentence.

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