Another word for reasonable
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Adjective
Consistent with reason and intellect
- Having or exercising the ability to reason.
- Consistent with or based on reason or good judgment; logical or sensible:
- Of sound mind; sane:
- Of, relating to, in accordance with, or of the nature of logic:
- Based on earlier or otherwise known statements, events, or conditions; reasonable:
- Reasoning or capable of reasoning in a clear and consistent manner:
- Having intelligence:
- Having a high degree of intelligence; mentally acute:
- Showing sound judgment and rationality:
- Following as a natural effect, result, or conclusion:
- Following as a logical conclusion.
- Logically correct or consistent.
See also:Possessing, proceeding from, or exhibiting good judgment and prudence
- Having the ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting; sagacious:
- Exhibiting common sense; prudent:
- Shrewd; crafty:
- Adequately versed in a subject.
- Having a sound basis; well-founded.
- Based on sound judgment, reasoning, or evidence; adequately substantiated:
- Vibrations transmitted through an elastic solid or a liquid or gas, with frequencies in the approximate range of 20 to 20,000 hertz, capable of being detected by human organs of hearing.
- Transmitted vibrations of any frequency.
- The sensation stimulated in the organs of hearing by such vibrations in the air or other medium.
- Acting with or exhibiting good judgment; reasonable:
- Not ornate or impractical:
- Having a perception of something; cognizant:
- Having great wisdom and discernment.
- Of sound mind; mentally healthy:
- Having or showing sound judgment; reasonable.
- One venerated for experience, judgment, and wisdom.
- Having or exhibiting wisdom and calm judgment.
- Proceeding from or marked by wisdom and calm judgment:
- Having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness.
- Having or exercising the ability to reason.
- Consistent with or based on reason or good judgment; logical or sensible:
- Of sound mind; sane:
- Careful or wise in handling practical matters; exercising good judgment or common sense:
- Characterized by or resulting from care or wisdom in practical matters or in planning for the future:
- Characteristically self-composed and sensible.
- Having or exhibiting sound judgment; prudent.
- Displaying common sense.
- Referring to electrical symmetry. A balanced line or balanced medium such as twisted pair, in which both twisted pair conductors serve for signal transmission and reception. Each conductor carries a similar electrical signal with identical direct and return current paths.At any given point in the cable, the signals are equal in voltage to ground but opposite in polarity, which has the effect of reducing radiated energy and, therefore, reducing attenuation. See also unbalanced and UTP.
- Referring to symmetrical relationship. For example, the X.25 protocol suite includes Link Access Procedure-Balanced (LAP-B), a balanced protocol that operates in Asynchronous Balanced Mode (ABM), which refers to the fact that the devices have a balanced, rather than a master/slave, relationship.Therefore, a device at either end of the link can initiate a dialogue at any time. See also ABM, LAP-B, master/slave, and X.25.
Kept within sensible limits
- Of or occurring in the Temperate Zone:
- Characterized by moderate temperatures, weather, or climate; neither hot nor cold.
- Moderate in degree or quality; restrained:
- Kept under control; subdued or moderate:
- Characterized by self-restraint; reserved:
- Prevented from moving; held down or secured:
- Being within reasonable limits; not excessive or extreme:
- Not violent or subject to extremes; mild or calm; temperate:
- Of medium or average quantity or extent.
- Possessed of, exercising, or showing prudence and self-restraint in speech and behavior; circumspect:
- Made, done, or situated so as to attract little notice:
- Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change.
- Traditional or restrained in style:
- Moderate; cautious:
Not excessive or extreme in amount, degree, or force
- Of or occurring in the Temperate Zone:
- Characterized by moderate temperatures, weather, or climate; neither hot nor cold.
- Moderate in degree or quality; restrained:
- Having or showing a moderate estimation of one's own abilities, accomplishments, or value:
- Having or proceeding from a disinclination to call attention to oneself; retiring or diffident:
- Observing conventional proprieties in speech, behavior, or dress, especially in the avoidance of arousing sexual interest.
- Being within reasonable limits; not excessive or extreme:
- Not violent or subject to extremes; mild or calm; temperate:
- Of medium or average quantity or extent.
Suited to or within the means of ordinary people
- Widely liked or appreciated:
- Liked by acquaintances; sought after for company:
- Of, representing, or carried on by the people at large:
- Having or showing a moderate estimation of one's own abilities, accomplishments, or value:
- Having or proceeding from a disinclination to call attention to oneself; retiring or diffident:
- Observing conventional proprieties in speech, behavior, or dress, especially in the avoidance of arousing sexual interest.
- Being within reasonable limits; not excessive or extreme:
- Not violent or subject to extremes; mild or calm; temperate:
- Of medium or average quantity or extent.
See also:
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Another word for reasonable
Modifier
Amenable to reason
- To one's liking; pleasing:
- Suitable; conformable:
- Ready to consent or submit:
- Capable of being bent or flexed; pliable:
- Readily bending or twisting the body without injury:
- Able to change to cope with variable circumstances:
- Capable of being shaped or formed, as by hammering or pressure:
- Easily controlled or influenced:
- Able to adjust to changing circumstances; adaptable:
- Capable of being persuaded; persuadable.
- Without bias or prejudice; impartial.
- Free from prejudice; impartial.
- Liberal in giving or sharing.
- Showing kindness and magnanimity:
- Marked by abundance; ample:
- Favoring reform, open to new ideas, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; not bound by traditional thinking; broad-minded.
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of liberalism.
- Of, designating, or characteristic of a political party founded on or associated with principles of social and political liberalism, especially in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States.
- Having or characterized by tolerant or liberal views.
- In agreement; compatible:
- Being in agreement with itself; coherent and uniform:
- Reliable; steady:
- Present participle of perceive.
- The act by which something is perceived.
- Of, characterized by, involving, or relating to cognition:
- Having a basis in or reducible to empirical factual knowledge.
- Of, relating to, marked by, or skilled in methodical and logical reasoning.
- Use of reason, especially to form conclusions, inferences, or judgments.
- Evidence or arguments used in thinking or argumentation.
- Having the power of perceiving, especially perceiving keenly and readily.
- One that perceives.
- Of, relating to, produced by, or resulting from reflection.
- Capable of or producing reflection:
- Characterized by or given to serious thinking or contemplation; thoughtful.
- Given to careful thought; reflective:
- Engrossed in thought:
- Exhibiting or characterized by careful thought:
- Of or relating to the brain or cerebrum.
- Appealing to or requiring the use of the intellect; intellectual rather than emotional:
- Characterized by or having an awareness of one's environment and one's own existence, sensations, and thoughts.
- Mentally perceptive or alert; awake:
- Capable of thought, will, or perception:
- Inclined to tolerate the beliefs or behavior of others; forbearing:
- Able to withstand or endure an adverse environmental condition:
- Alternative form of commonsensical.
- Sound judgment not based on specialized knowledge.
- Having intelligence:
- Having a high degree of intelligence; mentally acute:
- Showing sound judgment and rationality:
- (idiomatic) Sensible; rational; possessing sound judgment.
- Alternative spelling of level-headed.
- Of sound mind; mentally healthy:
- Having or showing sound judgment; reasonable.
- Acting with or exhibiting good judgment; reasonable:
- Not ornate or impractical:
- Having a perception of something; cognizant:
- Having or exercising the ability to reason.
- Consistent with or based on reason or good judgment; logical or sensible:
- Of sound mind; sane:
See also:Antonyms:Showing reason or sound judgment
- Sound judgment not based on specialized knowledge.
- Present participle of make sense.
- careful to consider all related circumstances before acting, judging, or deciding
- Existing independent of or external to the mind; actual or real:
- Based on observable phenomena; empirical:
- Uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices:
- analytic
- of or having to do with analytical chemistry
- Possessed of, exercising, or showing prudence and self-restraint in speech and behavior; circumspect:
- Made, done, or situated so as to attract little notice:
- Having great wisdom and discernment.
- Showing sound or pragmatic judgment; prudent; judicious:
- Characterized by kindness, mercy, or compassion:
- Characterized by an emphasis on humanistic values and concerns:
- Acting with or exhibiting good judgment; reasonable:
- Not ornate or impractical:
- Having a perception of something; cognizant:
- Not partial or biased; unprejudiced.
- Of or occurring in the Temperate Zone:
- Characterized by moderate temperatures, weather, or climate; neither hot nor cold.
- Moderate in degree or quality; restrained:
- Being within reasonable limits; not excessive or extreme:
- Not violent or subject to extremes; mild or calm; temperate:
- Of medium or average quantity or extent.
- Having or exercising the ability to reason.
- Consistent with or based on reason or good judgment; logical or sensible:
- Of sound mind; sane:
- Showing or characterized by equity; just and fair.
- Of or relating to rights historically enforced in courts of equity.
- Resolved not simply according to the strict letter of the law but in accordance with principles of substantial justice and the unique facts of the case.
- Having the ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting; sagacious:
- Exhibiting common sense; prudent:
- Shrewd; crafty:
- Vibrations transmitted through an elastic solid or a liquid or gas, with frequencies in the approximate range of 20 to 20,000 hertz, capable of being detected by human organs of hearing.
- Transmitted vibrations of any frequency.
- The sensation stimulated in the organs of hearing by such vibrations in the air or other medium.
- Careful or wise in handling practical matters; exercising good judgment or common sense:
- Characterized by or resulting from care or wisdom in practical matters or in planning for the future:
- Having or exhibiting sound judgment; prudent.
- Honorable and fair in one's dealings and actions:
- Consistent with what is morally right; righteous:
- Properly due or merited:
- Conforming with or conformable to justice, law, or morality:
- In accordance with fact, reason, or truth; correct:
- Fitting, proper, or appropriate:
- Of pleasing appearance, especially because of a pure or fresh quality; comely.
- Light in color, especially blond:
- Of light complexion:
Antonyms:Likely to appeal to the reason
- Of, relating to, in accordance with, or of the nature of logic:
- Based on earlier or otherwise known statements, events, or conditions; reasonable:
- Reasoning or capable of reasoning in a clear and consistent manner:
- Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible:
- Persuasive or ingratiating, especially in an effort to deceive.
- Vibrations transmitted through an elastic solid or a liquid or gas, with frequencies in the approximate range of 20 to 20,000 hertz, capable of being detected by human organs of hearing.
- Transmitted vibrations of any frequency.
- The sensation stimulated in the organs of hearing by such vibrations in the air or other medium.
- Capable of being accomplished or brought about; possible:
- Capable of being used or dealt with successfully:
- Logical; likely:
See also:Moderate in price
- Of pleasing appearance, especially because of a pure or fresh quality; comely.
- Light in color, especially blond:
- Of light complexion:
- Not high in price; cheap.
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