Sensible

Quick meaning: Sensible is an adjective meaning Acting with or showing good sense; able to make good judgements based on reason or wisdom, or reflecting such ability.

Meaning

Acting with or showing good sense; able to make good judgements based on reason or wisdom, or reflecting such ability.

More Meanings

1. Characterized more by usefulness, practicality, or comfort than by attractiveness, formality, or fashionableness, especially of clothing.
2. (especially formally) Able to be sensed by the senses or the psyche; able to be perceived.
3. (archaic) Able to feel or perceive.
4. (archaic) Liable to external impression; easily affected; sensitive.
5. (archaic) Of or pertaining to the senses; sensory.
6. (archaic) Cognizant; having the perception of something; aware of something.
7. (obsolete) Sensation; sensibility.

Example Sentences

For Plato the belief in sensible objects is fallible.

I only wear high heels on formal occasions; otherwise, I prefer sensible shoes.

Settle down, raise a family, join the PTA Buy some sensible shoes and a Chevrolet

Air is sensible to the Touch by its Motion, and by its Resistance to Bodies moved in it.

Word Forms

• sensiblest
• sensibles

Synonyms for sensible

Depending on context, synonyms include reasonable, perceptible, appreciable, detectable, prudent, judicious.

Antonyms for sensible

Common opposites include insensible, imperceptible, unappreciable, undetectable, unreasonable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wise, commonsense, commonsensical, commonsensible, prudent, reasonable.

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