REASON OUT
Dictionary entry overview: What does reason out mean?
• REASON OUT (verb)
The verb REASON OUT has 1 sense:
1. decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion
Familiarity information: REASON OUT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• REASON OUT (verb)
Meaning:
Decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
conclude; reason; reason out
Context example:
We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house
Hypernyms (to "reason out" is one way to...):
cerebrate; cogitate; think (use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "reason out"):
induce (reason or establish by induction)
deduce; deduct; derive; infer (reason by deduction; establish by deduction)
syllogise; syllogize (reason by syllogisms)
feel; find (come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds)
deduce; infer (conclude by reasoning; in logic)
gather (conclude from evidence)
extrapolate; generalise; generalize; infer (draw from specific cases for more general cases)
Sentence frame:
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