I ˈsensəbl Thing Adjective She's Sort Person Idea

• she's a sensible sort of person.
• i think that's a very sensible idea.
• i think the sensible thing would be to take a taxi home.
• say something sensible.

sensible

1. able to make good judgements based on reason and experience rather than emotion; practical
• She's a sensible sort of person.
• I think that's a very sensible idea.
• I think the sensible thing would be to take a taxi home.
• Say something sensible.
• a sensible approach/decision/solution/option
• Diplomacy is the only sensible way to resolve this dispute.
• This is an eminently sensible approach.
• We have to be sensible about this.
• We are just asking people to be sensible about the amount of water they use.
• It is sensible to have contingency plans in place.
• It would be sensible for the government to take precautionary measures.

Extra Examples

• Ben's usually pretty sensible.
• I wish you'd be sensible for once!
• She was a sensible little girl, and would never get into a car with a stranger.
• That wasn't a very sensible thing to do!
• In the state I was in, this seemed a perfectly sensible remark.
• That advice sounds sensible enough.
• This approach seems very sensible to me.
• Choose a sensible diet and stick to it.
2. useful rather than fashionable
• sensible shoes
3. aware of something
• OPPOSITE insensible
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• I am sensible of the fact that mathematics is not a popular subject.

Word Origin

• late Middle English (also in the sense ‘perceptible by the senses’): from Old French, or from Latin sensibilis, from sensus ‘faculty of feeling, thought, meaning’, from sentire ‘feel’.