Usually means: Practical and reasonable in judgment.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word sensible:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. sensible: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sensible: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sensible: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sensible: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sensible: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sensible, sensible: Wordnik
  7. sensible: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sensible: Wiktionary
  9. sensible: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sensible: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sensible: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sensible: Dictionary.com
  13. sensible: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sensible: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sensible: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sensible: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sensible: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sensible: Rhymezone
  19. sensible, sensible, sensible: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sensible: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sensible: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. sensible: Free Dictionary
  23. sensible: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. sensible: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. sensible: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. sensible: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sensible: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sensible: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. sensible: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sensible: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sensibleness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Acting with or showing good sense; able to make good judgements based on reason, or reflecting such ability.
adjective:  Characterized more by usefulness, practicality, or comfort than by attractiveness, formality, or fashionableness, especially of clothing.
adjective:  (especially formally) Able to be sensed by the senses or the psyche; able to be perceived.
adjective:  (archaic) Able to feel or perceive.
adjective:  (archaic) Liable to external impression; easily affected; sensitive.
adjective:  (archaic) Of or pertaining to the senses; sensory.
adjective:  (archaic) Cognizant; having the perception of something; aware of something.
noun:  (obsolete) Sensation; sensibility.
noun:  (obsolete) That which impresses itself on the senses; anything perceptible.
noun:  (obsolete) That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.

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