sensible
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛn.sɪ.bəl/
The English word “sensible” has 10 meanings listed here.
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.
- 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
- Sensation; sensibility.
- That which impresses itself on the senses; anything perceptible.
- That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.
Etymology
From Latin sēnsibilis (“perceptible by the senses, having feeling, sensible”), from sentiō (“to feel, perceive”).
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