sensible

Plural: sensibles

Adjective

• Having or showing good judgment; practical and intelligent.
• showing reason or sound judgment
  • "a sensible choice"
  • "a sensible person"
• able to feel or perceive
  • "even amoeba are sensible creatures"
  • "the more sensible parts of the skin"

Adjective Satellite

• readily perceived by the senses
  • "the sensible universe"
  • "a sensible odor"
• aware intuitively or intellectually of something sensed; ; - Henry Hallam; - Edmund Burke
  • "made sensible of his mistakes"
  • "I am sensible that the mention of such a circumstance may appear trifling"
  • "sensible that a good deal more is still to be done"

Adj

• 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.
• Able to feel or perceive.
• Liable to external impression; easily affected; sensitive.
• Of or pertaining to the senses; sensory.
• Cognizant; having the perception of something; aware of something.

Noun

• Something that can be perceived by the senses.
• Sensation; sensibility.
• That which impresses itself on the senses; anything perceptible.
• That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.

Examples

• A ’SENSIBLE’ player knows when to save high-value tiles and when to play them.
• I only wear high heels on formal occasions; otherwise, I prefer sensible shoes.
• The empty triple-word square was a powerful ’SENSIBLE’, enticing players to use it.

Synonyms

reasonable, sensitive, appreciable, detectable, perceptible

Antonyms

insensible, unreasonable, imperceptible, unappreciable, undetectable

Related Words

sense, sensitive, sensory, sensual, sensuous, supersensible, SENSIBLY

Anagrams of sensible