Reasonable
['riːz(ə)nəb(ə)l] or ['riznəbl]
Definition
(adj.) marked by sound judgment; 'sane nuclear policy' .
(adj.) showing reason or sound judgment; 'a sensible choice'; 'a sensible person' .
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Definition
(n.) Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as, a reasonable being.
(n.) Governed by reason; being under the influence of reason; thinking, speaking, or acting rationally, or according to the dictates of reason; agreeable to reason; just; rational; as, the measure must satisfy all reasonable men.
(n.) Not excessive or immoderate; within due limits; proper; as, a reasonable demand, amount, price.
(adv.) Reasonably; tolerably.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Right, equitable, just, rational, fit, proper, according to reason, agreeable to reason.[2]. Judicious, sensible, wise, sagacious, enlightened.[3]. Tolerable, moderate.[4]. Cheap, low, not dear.[5]. [Rare.] Rational, intellectual, endowed with reason.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See RATIONAL]
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Unserious Contents or Definition
adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion dissuasion and evasion.
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Examples
- He bucked her out along the shore Qf the lake and as soon as she was reasonable they went on back along the trail. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He could not deny this, and indeed was very reasonable throughout. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, her expressions more moderate! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It was reasonable, however, to hope that they would not continue long. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- So convenient a thing it is to be a _reasonable creature_, since _it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- This conceit, however, is no more reasonable than any of the foregoing. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Well, then; ain't it reasonable to ask, who was it? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I went very reasonable. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Wickham of course wanted more than he could get; but at length was reduced to be reasonable. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Now do be reasonable, and take a sensible view of the case, implored Jo, almost at her wit's end. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It seems so reasonable! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This, surely, is a reasonable hope. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Father Cedric, said Athelstane, be reasonable. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- What he desires, should be in itself reasonable. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The clepsydra became in Greece a useful instrument to enforce the law in restricting loquacious orators and lawyers to reasonable limits in their addresses. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- What is called Fabian Socialism, the exposition of socialism by the London Fabian Society, makes its appeal to reasonable men of all classes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We hope you will think better of it, Mr. George, said I, and we shall come to see you again, trusting to find you more reasonable. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I won't be reasonable. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- And there was time enough for Emma to form a reasonable judgment, as their visit included all the rest of the morning. Jane Austen. Emma.
- To an onlooker her beauty would have made her feelings almost seem reasonable. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It was not Miss Flite who detained us; she was as reasonable a little creature in consulting the convenience of others as there possibly could be. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It seems to have been a fashion with constitution planners in the eighteenth century rather than a reasonable imperative. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Now, is not that reasonable? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Come, Tom, don't you think you'd better be reasonable? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- How reasonable you are. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Above all a reasonable and practical proposal must not require any imaginative patience. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Consequently, it is necessary to provide some way by which duplicates may be made cheaply enough to permit their purchase by the public at a reasonable price. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Evidently not: it is more reasonable and practical to keep park benches out of the shadows and to plague unescorted prostitutes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I am reasonable, answered Front-de-Boeuf, and if silver be scant, I refuse not gold. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He should have respected even unreasonable scruples, had there been such; but hers were all reasonable. Jane Austen. Emma.
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