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Sensible

adjective

Showing reason or sound judgment. Synonym: reasonable. "A sensible person" Antonym: unreasonable.

Able to feel or perceive. Synonym: sensitive. "The more sensible parts of the skin" Antonym: insensible.

Readily perceived by the senses. "A sensible odor"

Aware intuitively or intellectually of something sensed. "I am sensible that the mention of such a circumstance may appear trifling" , "Sensible that a good deal more is still to be done"

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"Sensible" Quotes from Famous Books

... was unanimously pronounced the success of the day; for without being flowery or sentimental, as is too apt to be the case with these first efforts of youthful orators, it was earnest, sensible, and so inspiring that she left the stage in a storm of applause, the good fellows being as much fired by her stirring appeal to 'march shoulder to shoulder', as if she had chanted the 'Marseillaise' then and there. One young man was so excited that he ...

— Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott

... there is a very sensible sentence, affirming that one Christian monarch in Spain would be better than three hundred petty kings disputing in a noisy assembly. "The chiefs of parties," continues the letter, "naturally yearn for honours or riches ...

— Romantic Spain - A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) • John Augustus O'Shea

... leaked out, or what pressure had been brought to bear on the too facile John, I could never fathom. Enough that my family had triumphed; that I found myself alone in London, tender in years, smarting under the most sensible mortification, and by every sentiment of pride and self-respect debarred for ever ...

— The Dynamiter • Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny van de Grift Stevenson

... sensible, my dear sir, of your friendly remembrance. Your kind letter found me in the midst of the official hurly- burly of the coronation fetes. What business on earth had I to do with such an affair? I have not the least idea. Thank ...

— Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 1, "From Paris to Rome: - Years of Travel as a Virtuoso" • Franz Liszt; Letters assembled by La Mara and translated

... over-pleased at this definite reply, bold and sensible as it was, but he was so amorous that he would not abandon all hope, ...

— One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories - Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles • Various

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