HOW TO PRONOUNCE
sensible
/ˈsɛn.sə.bəl/
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What does sensible mean?
adjective
- Acting with or showing good sense; able to make good judgements based on reason or wisdom, or reflecting such ability.
- Characterized more by usefulness, practicality, or comfort than by attractiveness, formality, or fashionableness, especially of clothing.
- Able to be sensed by the senses or the psyche; able to be perceived.
More meanings (7)
adjective
- (archaic) Able to feel or perceive.
- (archaic) Liable to external impression; easily affected; sensitive.
- (archaic) Of or pertaining to the senses; sensory.
- (archaic) Cognizant; having the perception of something; aware of something.
noun
- (obsolete) Sensation; sensibility.
- (obsolete) That which impresses itself on the senses; anything perceptible.
- (obsolete) That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsɛn.sə.bəl/
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See this word in context.
Did you ever hear about the learned Herr Professor who regarded unnecessary adornment with contempt and favoured sensible, utilitarian clothes for women?
However much astonished I might be, I was sensible that I had no right to refuse compliance with such a peremptory command.
More book examples (3)
It has been said that we are less sensible to pain and wounds on account of the callousness of our nervous organisation!
But this evil is more or less sensible in proportion to the authority and the means of action which the legislature possesses.
Various authors cite numerous examples in which otherwise sensible women have been driven to the most inconceivable things--in many cases to murder.