Sane
[seɪn] or [sen]
Definition
(adj.) mentally healthy; free from mental disorder; 'appears to be completely sane' .
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Definition
(a.) Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally; -- said of the mind.
(a.) Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge of the effect of one's actions in an ordinary maner; -- said of persons.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Sound (especially in mind), healthy, sober, lucid, not disordered, not insane.
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Definition
adj. sound in mind or body: healthy: not disordered in intellect.—adv. Sane′ly.—n. Sane′-ness.
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Examples
- Michael is not sane. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- After all, it was rather great to be able to be so sane. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I said, “Your brother's sane--a great deal more sane than you are, or ever will be, it is to be hoped. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- However, mad or sane, he tried,' returned Miss Mowcher. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- An excitement that could no longer affect sane adults was spread among the children in the south of France and in the Rhone Valley. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The revolution called Marat to politics, and his earliest contributions to the great discussion were fine and sane. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But no temperature made the melancholy mad elephants more mad or more sane. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- You cannot have forgotten the singular knife which was found in the dead man's hand, a knife which certainly no sane man would choose for a weapon. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Surely one may be sane and yet think so, since the greater part of the world has often had to come round from its opinion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He had his moments of conviction; he had his saner phases when the thing was almost a jest. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But my essay towards bringing her to a saner view of her own situation, did not end here. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Here in Spain the Communists offered the best discipline and the soundest and sanest for the prosecution of the war. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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