Synonyms for Rationalize:

• n.

  •
  • coordinate,
  • reconcile,
  • reorganize,
  • explain away,
  • manage,
  • codify,
  • operate,
  • prioritize,
  • restructure.
  •
  • ponder,
  • think out,
  • take something into consideration,
  • contemplate,
  • deliberate,
  • take a long hard look at someone/something,
  • think over.
  •apologise (noun)
  • apologise.
  •apologize (noun)
  • apologize.
  •cut (noun)
  • cut.

• v.

  •account (verb)
  • clarify,
  • describe,
  • explicate.
  •calculate (verb)
  • conclude,
  • divide,
  • study,
  • value,
  • measure,
  • enumerate,
  • gauge,
  • plot,
  • add,
  • compute,
  • appraise,
  • calculate,
  • triangulate,
  • deduce,
  • scheme,
  • sum,
  • quantify,
  • total,
  • presume,
  • plan,
  • rank,
  • program,
  • judge,
  • assess,
  • infer,
  • estimate,
  • rate,
  • score,
  • consider,
  • weigh,
  • multiply,
  • surmise,
  • quantize,
  • evaluate,
  • tally,
  • guess,
  • schedule,
  • determine,
  • suppose,
  • approximate,
  • figure,
  • count,
  • reckon.
  •centralize (verb)
  • concenters,
  • in corporate,
  • in-corporates,
  • Concentered,
  • Concentering,
  • in-corporate,
  • in corporates.
  •cop out (verb)
  • hast alibi,
  • gives slip,
  • giving the slip,
  • uses pretext,
  • with drew,
  • with-drew,
  • has alibi,
  • hadst alibi,
  • gives the slip,
  • giving slip,
  • with-drawing,
  • with drawn,
  • with draw,
  • give slip,
  • de sert,
  • with draws,
  • had alibi,
  • de-sert,
  • with-draw,
  • gave slip,
  • haddest alibi,
  • hath alibi,
  • with-drawn,
  • using pretext,
  • with drawing,
  • gave the slip,
  • used pretext,
  • having alibi.
  •defend (verb)
  • came to defense of,
  • be-friends,
  • says defense,
  • be-friended,
  • be friended,
  • de-fends,
  • go bat for,
  • put good word,
  • putting a good word,
  • be friending,
  • thumping for,
  • says in defense,
  • spoke for,
  • re-commends,
  • bore one out,
  • covering for,
  • bears one out,
  • put a good word,
  • puts in a good word,
  • covers for,
  • re-commended,
  • rode shotgun for,
  • de fending,
  • came defense of,
  • stuck for,
  • bearing one out,
  • said defense,
  • be-friending,
  • spake up for,
  • putting good word,
  • be-friend,
  • proving case,
  • apologized for,
  • up hold,
  • thumps for,
  • sticks for,
  • comes defense of,
  • bare one out,
  • putting in good word,
  • beared one out,
  • prove case,
  • coming defense of,
  • de-fending,
  • putting in a good word,
  • de fended,
  • up-holds,
  • sticked up for,
  • be friend,
  • coming to defense of,
  • proves a case,
  • de fends,
  • puts a good word,
  • proved case,
  • saying defense,
  • stuck up for,
  • puts in good word,
  • re commending,
  • riding shotgun for,
  • spake for,
  • up-held,
  • sticking for,
  • put in good word,
  • de fend,
  • stands up for,
  • speaking up for,
  • de-fend,
  • spoke up for,
  • proved a case,
  • proving a case,
  • stands by,
  • comes to defense of,
  • standing up for,
  • thumped for,
  • up holding,
  • covered for,
  • re commends,
  • said in defense,
  • speaks up for,
  • say defense,
  • up-holding,
  • up holds,
  • sticks up for,
  • re-commending,
  • re commend,
  • de-fended,
  • apologizes for,
  • sticking up for,
  • puts good word,
  • rid shotgun for,
  • sticked for,
  • rides shotgun for,
  • come defense of,
  • speaks for,
  • re-commend,
  • saying in defense,
  • apologizing for,
  • up-hold,
  • re commended,
  • proves case,
  • up held.
  •exculpate (verb)
  • dis charged,
  • wiping slate clean,
  • dis charging,
  • dis missed,
  • wipes slate clean,
  • re-lease,
  • Disculpated,
  • re lease,
  • dis-charging,
  • re-leased,
  • dis-charged,
  • dis missing,
  • dis-charge,
  • re-leases,
  • dis charge,
  • re leases,
  • wiped slate clean,
  • dis-missed,
  • dis charges,
  • Disculpating,
  • dis-missing,
  • dis-charges,
  • disculpates.
  •excuse (verb)
  • pleading ignorance,
  • pre-text,
  • exempted from,
  • giving absolution,
  • gives absolution,
  • pre texts,
  • letted go,
  • pre text,
  • exempting from,
  • pre-texts,
  • winking at,
  • gave absolution,
  • over looked,
  • winks at,
  • over-looking,
  • taking rap for,
  • over look,
  • pleaded ignorance,
  • making allowances for,
  • pleads ignorance,
  • made allowances for,
  • grants amnesty,
  • over-look,
  • took rap for,
  • dispenses from,
  • granted amnesty,
  • takes rap for,
  • dispensing from,
  • over-looks,
  • dispensed from,
  • granting amnesty,
  • makes allowances for,
  • exempts from,
  • pretexting,
  • pled ignorance,
  • over looks.
  •explain (verb)
  • de-ciphering,
  • throwing light up on,
  • ex plicating,
  • throws light up on,
  • de-fined,
  • para phrase,
  • de-fine,
  • ex plaining,
  • de-scribes,
  • re solve,
  • para phrased,
  • un-folding,
  • dis-closes,
  • un-tangles,
  • un-tangling,
  • puts across,
  • de fining,
  • ex-plains,
  • ex plicates,
  • re-solve,
  • un folds,
  • un folded,
  • ex-plicating,
  • go in to detail,
  • ex-plained,
  • de fine,
  • ex plains,
  • ex-plain,
  • de-fining,
  • ex-pound,
  • re fined,
  • un-raveled,
  • re-veal,
  • brake down,
  • ex pound,
  • un-tangle,
  • put plain english,
  • dis-closed,
  • de-scribed,
  • re-solves,
  • ex-pounded,
  • de scribed,
  • para-phrases,
  • de fined,
  • para phrases,
  • re-veals,
  • re-solving,
  • ex pounded,
  • re-solved,
  • made plain,
  • un folding,
  • dis-close,
  • un ravels,
  • de-cipher,
  • re fine,
  • re-fine,
  • ex plicated,
  • un tangled,
  • going into detail,
  • ex pounds,
  • going in to detail,
  • un ravel,
  • re-fining,
  • re veals,
  • dis closing,
  • re-fines,
  • ex plicate,
  • para phrasing,
  • goes into detail,
  • de ciphering,
  • un fold,
  • puts plain english,
  • throws light upon,
  • throw light up on,
  • ex pounding,
  • ex-plicated,
  • un-ravelling,
  • un-folds,
  • ex-plicates,
  • trans-lated,
  • putting across,
  • de scribing,
  • making plain,
  • throwing light upon,
  • went into detail,
  • de-ciphered,
  • de cipher,
  • un raveling,
  • de-scribe,
  • un-ravelled,
  • ex-plicate,
  • de fines,
  • de-ciphers,
  • threw light upon,
  • ex plain,
  • dis close,
  • puts in plain english,
  • un tangles,
  • un ravelled,
  • un tangling,
  • un raveled,
  • breaks down,
  • dis-closing,
  • para-phrased,
  • un-fold,
  • de ciphers,
  • re solves,
  • un-folded,
  • de-scribing,
  • dis closes,
  • went in to detail,
  • para-phrase,
  • threw light up on,
  • un-raveling,
  • goes in to detail,
  • de scribes,
  • de ciphered,
  • re fines,
  • un-ravel,
  • de-fines,
  • makes plain,
  • trans late,
  • ex plained,
  • broke down,
  • un ravelling,
  • para-phrasing,
  • ex-pounds,
  • ex-pounding,
  • un-tangled,
  • ex-plaining,
  • de scribe,
  • un-ravels,
  • un tangle,
  • dis closed,
  • sets right,
  • putting in plain english,
  • putting plain english.
  •gloss (verb)
  • mis-represents,
  • mis represented,
  • smoothing over,
  • dis guised,
  • deaconing,
  • dis guising,
  • mis-representing,
  • dis guises,
  • be lying,
  • dis-guises,
  • smoothed over,
  • mis-represented,
  • be lied,
  • dis-guise,
  • dis-guising,
  • mis represent,
  • mis-represent,
  • smooths over,
  • dis guise,
  • mis represents,
  • be-lied,
  • softpedal,
  • mis representing,
  • dis-guised,
  • deaconed,
  • be-lying.
  •justify (verb)
  • doeth justice to,
  • are answerable for,
  • was answerable for,
  • spoke favor,
  • did justice to,
  • speaking in favor,
  • showed cause,
  • am answerable for,
  • wert answerable for,
  • re butted,
  • speaks in favor,
  • dost justice to,
  • speaking favor,
  • re-butted,
  • cop plea,
  • argued for,
  • re butting,
  • is answerable for,
  • does justice to,
  • didst justice to,
  • speak favor,
  • wast answerable for,
  • speaks favor,
  • being answerable for,
  • spake in favor,
  • art answerable for,
  • spoke in favor,
  • doing justice to,
  • doest justice to,
  • shows cause,
  • showing cause,
  • doth justice to,
  • making allowances,
  • spake favor,
  • argues for,
  • were answerable for,
  • re-butting,
  • made allowances,
  • makes allowances,
  • makes good.
  •make excuse; justify (verb)
  • excise,
  • think through,
  • extenuate,
  • resolve,
  • apply logic,
  • reason out,
  • cop a plea,
  • make allowance,
  • Intellectualize,
  • give alibi,
  • elucidate.
  •order (verb)
  • design,
  • order,
  • grade,
  • form,
  • devise,
  • frame,
  • maintain,
  • screen,
  • balance,
  • fix,
  • collate,
  • settle,
  • mediate,
  • subordinate,
  • set,
  • shape,
  • cast,
  • sort,
  • stratify,
  • prepare,
  • compose,
  • regulate,
  • normalize,
  • chart,
  • sift,
  • group,
  • control,
  • class,
  • pigeonhole,
  • unify,
  • marshal,
  • classify,
  • array,
  • Methodize,
  • orchestrate,
  • stabilize,
  • establish,
  • type,
  • right,
  • arrange,
  • harmonize,
  • categorize,
  • adjust,
  • unsnarl,
  • structure,
  • separate,
  • place.
  •ratiocinate (verb)
  • put one's thinking cap,
  • putting on thinking cap,
  • puts on one's thinking cap,
  • putting on ones thinking cap,
  • putting ones thinking cap,
  • put one thinking cap,
  • puts thinking cap,
  • puts on ones thinking cap,
  • put ones thinking cap,
  • put on one thinking cap,
  • puts on one thinking cap,
  • puts ones thinking cap,
  • putting on one's thinking cap,
  • putting one's thinking cap,
  • puts one thinking cap,
  • putting on one thinking cap,
  • putting thinking cap,
  • putting one thinking cap,
  • puts one's thinking cap,
  • put on ones thinking cap,
  • put thinking cap,
  • puts on thinking cap.
  •reason (verb)
  • Syllogizing,
  • threshing out,
  • thinking through,
  • de-ducted,
  • de ducting,
  • de ducts,
  • de-liberating,
  • de-duct,
  • Syllogized,
  • threshed out,
  • de duct,
  • drew from,
  • drew conclusion,
  • de-ducting,
  • thinks through,
  • de-ducts,
  • threshes out,
  • de liberates,
  • de-duces,
  • drawing conclusion,
  • syllogizes,
  • de duce,
  • de-liberated,
  • de liberated,
  • figures out,
  • draws conclusion,
  • de-duce,
  • de duces,
  • de ducted,
  • de liberating,
  • de-liberate,
  • de-liberates,
  • draws from,
  • de liberate,
  • drawing from.
  •systematize (verb)
  • de signing,
  • straightening up,
  • pulls together,
  • de vised,
  • getting act together,
  • de sign,
  • making uniform,
  • pulled together,
  • shapes up,
  • dis-posing,
  • de-signed,
  • de-vised,
  • gets act together,
  • de-vising,
  • shaping up,
  • de signed,
  • de-signing,
  • made uniform,
  • dis posing,
  • de vising,
  • gat act together,
  • makes uniform,
  • got act together,
  • de-vise,
  • gotten act together,
  • tightening up,
  • de signs,
  • de-sign,
  • dis-posed,
  • dis posed,
  • dis pose,
  • de vise,
  • de-signs,
  • dis-pose.
  •think (verb)
  • hath in mind,
  • logicalizes,
  • intellectualizes,
  • stopping to consider,
  • using one's head,
  • used ones head,
  • ideates,
  • stopping consider,
  • hast mind,
  • use one head,
  • stopt consider,
  • racked one's brains,
  • ideating,
  • hath mind,
  • took under consideration,
  • racks one brains,
  • using one head,
  • racking one brains,
  • rack one brains,
  • had mind,
  • having mind,
  • racking ones brains,
  • uses head,
  • logicalizing,
  • used one's head,
  • logicalized,
  • hast in mind,
  • rack ones brains,
  • stop consider,
  • racked brains,
  • have mind,
  • racking one's brains,
  • racking brains,
  • stopt to consider,
  • use ones head,
  • had in mind,
  • takes under consideration,
  • racks ones brains,
  • taking under consideration,
  • uses one's head,
  • using ones head,
  • used head,
  • mulled over,
  • racked one brains,
  • has mind,
  • stops consider,
  • racks brains,
  • ideated,
  • stops to consider,
  • using head,
  • having in mind,
  • stopped consider,
  • uses one head,
  • stopped to consider,
  • hadst mind,
  • haddest mind,
  • used one head,
  • racks one's brains,
  • sorts out,
  • racked ones brains,
  • haddest in mind,
  • uses ones head,
  • hadst in mind.
  •urge (verb)
  • co-unselling,
  • insisted on,
  • re-quests,
  • pro-pose,
  • appeals to,
  • in-duces,
  • in-spire,
  • in-cite,
  • re quests,
  • in-spiring,
  • be sought,
  • in-spires,
  • in duces,
  • re questing,
  • in-spired,
  • pro posing,
  • in-duce,
  • pro moting,
  • be-sought,
  • pro posed,
  • pro-mote,
  • re quested,
  • puts to,
  • in spire,
  • in-cited,
  • putting to,
  • in spires,
  • putting up to,
  • in cite,
  • in spired,
  • puts up to,
  • appealing to,
  • in duce,
  • insisting on,
  • pro pose,
  • firing up,
  • re-questing,
  • in cites,
  • insists on,
  • co unselling,
  • pro-moting,
  • pro-motes,
  • in spiring,
  • pro-posing.
  •vindicate (verb)
  • dis proving,
  • re habilitated,
  • dis-proves,
  • dis proves,
  • pleads for,
  • pled for,
  • pleaded for,
  • re habilitate,
  • freeing from blame,
  • dis-prove,
  • frees from blame,
  • re-habilitating,
  • re-habilitated,
  • re habilitates,
  • freed from blame,
  • re-habilitate,
  • dis-proving,
  • dis prove,
  • dis-proved,
  • dis proved.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • whitewash.
  •centralize
  • integrate,
  • concenter,
  • streamlining,
  • streamlines,
  • streamline.
  •cop out
  • give the slip,
  • use pretext,
  • have alibi,
  • welsh.
  •defend
  • stand by,
  • stood by,
  • speaking for,
  • be friends,
  • standing by,
  • stick for,
  • apologize for,
  • stick up for,
  • say in defense,
  • ride shotgun for,
  • bear one out,
  • speak up for,
  • stood up for,
  • thump for,
  • prove a case,
  • come to defense of,
  • put in a good word,
  • cover for,
  • stand up for.
  •forgive
  • exculpate.
  •reason
  • thresh out,
  • draw from,
  • figure out,
  • thought through,
  • figured out,
  • draw conclusion.
  •think
  • sorting out,
  • rack brains,
  • use one's head,
  • mulling over,
  • ideate,
  • mulls over,
  • intellectualized,
  • take under consideration,
  • has in mind,
  • thought,
  • sorted out,
  • have in mind,
  • use head,
  • rack one's brains,
  • intellectualizing,
  • stop to consider,
  • mull over,
  • sort out.
  •vindicate
  • free from blame,
  • plead for,
  • pleading for.
  •weigh
  • allowance.
  •Other relevant words:
  • pleading,
  • qualify,
  • work out,
  • generalize,
  • confirm,
  • turn off,
  • lay plans,
  • burn,
  • philosophize,
  • plan ahead,
  • standardize,
  • decipher,
  • condense,
  • hack,
  • swerve,
  • syllogize,
  • clear up,
  • update,
  • pare,
  • stop,
  • unfold,
  • allegorize,
  • distort,
  • make plausible,
  • clear,
  • tune,
  • make allowance for,
  • uphold,
  • illustrate,
  • snip,
  • disregard,
  • downplay,
  • Paralogize,
  • substantiate,
  • synchronise,
  • solve,
  • legitimate,
  • minimize,
  • palliate,
  • absolve,
  • regularize,
  • pervert,
  • spell out,
  • rationalising,
  • lop,
  • relieve,
  • clip,
  • argue insincerely,
  • thin out,
  • hypothesize,
  • rehabilitate,
  • acquit,
  • beg off,
  • ignore,
  • conceal,
  • sustain,
  • make clear,
  • Pragmatize,
  • purge,
  • switch off,
  • hide,
  • ratiocinate,
  • simplify,
  • forecast,
  • edit out,
  • rationalized,
  • Euhemerize,
  • diminish,
  • issue,
  • thin,
  • exposit,
  • abbreviate,
  • slew,
  • prearrange,
  • camouflage,
  • cut down,
  • illuminate,
  • show,
  • rationalistic,
  • project,
  • trim down,
  • crop,
  • demythologize,
  • systemize,
  • hew,
  • exemplify,
  • make light of,
  • theorize,
  • synthesise,
  • misapply,
  • economize,
  • make out,
  • set up,
  • gloss over,
  • make arrangements,
  • harmonise,
  • contract,
  • unravel,
  • cease,
  • demonstrate,
  • dilute,
  • permit,
  • synchronize,
  • sugar-coat,
  • tune up,
  • sheer,
  • validate,
  • geld,
  • logicalize,
  • Mitigating,
  • plead,
  • reason ill,
  • mitigated,
  • allow,
  • prune,
  • Pled,
  • modernize,
  • legitimatize,
  • edit,
  • destigmatize,
  • condone,
  • work up,
  • synthesize,
  • free,
  • reason away,
  • cut back,
  • trim back,
  • warrant,
  • let-off,
  • make reasonable,
  • rationalist,
  • routinize,
  • legalize,
  • bring down,
  • curtail,
  • rationalise,
  • unlock,
  • reduce,
  • rationalization,
  • color,
  • reinstate,
  • veer,
  • popularize,
  • expound,
  • concert,
  • trim,
  • play down,
  • Logicize,
  • rationalizing,
  • intend,
  • foreshorten,
  • show the way,
  • analyze,
  • theorise,
  • write out,
  • curve,
  • mitigate,
  • show how,
  • cover,
  • pardon,
  • dress,
  • restore,
  • enlighten,
  • legitimize,
  • slue,
  • shorten,
  • exempt,
  • crack,
  • apply reason,
  • contrive,
  • analyse,
  • standardise,
  • abridge.

Paraphrases for Rationalize:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    rationalized, rationalising.
  • Proper noun, singular
    rationalizing, streamline, rationalisation.
  • Verb, base form
    rationalise.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    rational.
  • Verb, base form
    reorganize, downsize, simplified, simplify, explain, realign, justify, harmonize, optimize, restructure, readjust, consolidate, improve, improved, improving, organize, substantiate, reorganise, refine, reorient, adjust, rectify, mainstream.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    streamline.
  • Proper noun, singular
    rationalization.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    streamline.
  • Verb, base form
    rationalization, streamline, ration.

Homophones for Rationalize:

• rationalise, Rationalise Away, rationalize away.