Sensible

//ˈsɛn.sɪ.bəl// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Acting with or showing good sense; able to make good judgements based on reason or wisdom, or reflecting such ability.

    "They ask questions of someone who thinks he's got something sensible to say on some matter when actually he hasn't."

  2. 2
    Characterized more by usefulness, practicality, or comfort than by attractiveness, formality, or fashionableness, especially of clothing.

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

  3. 3
    Able to be sensed by the senses or the psyche; able to be perceived. especially, formal

    "For Plato the belief in sensible objects is fallible."

  4. 4
    Able to feel or perceive. archaic

    "Would your cambric were sensible as your finger."

  5. 5
    Liable to external impression; easily affected; sensitive. archaic

    "a sensible thermometer"

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  1. 6
    Of or pertaining to the senses; sensory. archaic
  2. 7
    Cognizant; having the perception of something; aware of something. archaic

    "He cannot think at any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it."

Adjective
  1. 1
    aware intuitively or intellectually of something sensed wordnet
  2. 2
    readily perceived by the senses wordnet
  3. 3
    showing reason or sound judgment wordnet
  4. 4
    able to feel or perceive wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Sensation; sensibility. obsolete

    "Our temper changed […] which must needs remove the sensible of pain."

  2. 2
    That which impresses itself on the senses; anything perceptible. obsolete

    "Aristotle distinguished sensibles into common and proper."

  3. 3
    That which has sensibility; a sensitive being. obsolete

    "This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin sēnsibilis (“perceptible by the senses, having feeling, sensible”), from sentiō (“to feel, perceive”).

Etymology 2

From Latin sēnsibilis (“perceptible by the senses, having feeling, sensible”), from sentiō (“to feel, perceive”).

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