Sekirov Dictionary

sensible

UK /ˈsɛn.sɪ.bəl/US /ˈsɛn.sə.bəl/

adjective 7
noun 3
forms 4

adjective7

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using or showing good judgement, the kind that comes when someone can think clearly
- They ask questions of someone who thinks he's got something sensible to say on some matter when actually he hasn't. — 2005
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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.
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(formal) Able to be sensed by the senses or the psyche; able to be perceived.
- For Plato the belief in sensible objects is fallible.
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(no longer used) Able to feel or perceive.
- Would your cambric were sensible as your finger. — 1608
(no longer used) Liable to external impression; easily affected; sensitive.
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(no longer used) Cognizant; having the perception of something; aware of something.
- He cannot think at any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it. — 1689
(no longer used) Of or pertaining to the senses; sensory.

noun3

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That which impresses itself on the senses; anything perceptible.
- Aristotle distinguished sensibles into common and proper. — 1857
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(no longer used) Sensation; sensibility.
- Our temper changed […] which must needs remove the sensible of pain. — 1667
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(no longer used) That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.
- This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles. — 1624

forms

sensibles · more sensible · most sensible · sensiblest

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