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SENSIBLE

sensible, sensitive - a 
able to feel or perceive; "even amoeba are sensible creatures"; "the more sensible parts of the skin" 

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Synonyms

astute, down-to-earth, intelligent, judicious, logical, practical, prudent, rational, sane, shrewd, sober, wise

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Examples

Kuragin was much more sensible and simple with women than among men.

Some sensible observations by the editor were added to the original biography.

One day he is sensible, well educated, and good-natured, and the next he's a wild beast....

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Etymology

late 14c., "capable of sensation or feeling;" also "capable of being sensed or felt, perceptible to the senses," hence "perceptible to the mind, easily understood; logical, reasonable," from Old French sensible and directly from Late Latin sensibilis "having feeling: perceptible by the senses," from sensus, past participle of sentire "to perceive, feel" (see sense (n.)).

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