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reasonable
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Word definitions for reasonable in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "having sound judgment, sane, rational," from Old French raisonable , from Latin rationabilis , from ratio (see reason (n.)).What the majority of people consider to be 'reasonable' is that about which there is agreement, if not among all, at least ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a good/close/reasonable approximation a reasonable precaution ▪ You must take all reasonable precautions to safeguard official property. a reasonable request ▪ It seemed like a reasonable request. a reasonable/plausible ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reasonable \Rea"son*a*ble\ (r[=e]"z'n*[.a]*b'l), a. [OE. resonable, F. raisonnable, fr. L. rationabilis. See Reason , n.] Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as, a reasonable being. Governed by reason; being under the influence ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational. 2 just; fair; agreeable to reason.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. showing reason or sound judgment; "a sensible choice"; "a sensible person" [syn: sensible ] [ant: unreasonable ] not excessive or extreme; "a fairish income"; "reasonable prices" [syn: fair , fairish ] marked by sound judgment; "sane nuclear policy" ...
Usage examples of reasonable.
The employed must recognize the necessity of an accumulated fund of capital, and on the other hand the employer must be as anxious to have about him a contented, prosperous community, as to heap up money beyond any reasonable use for it.
Marquis de Montespan, not to annul and revoke the judicial and legal separation which exists, but to inform him of your return to reasonable ideas, and of your resolve to be reconciled with the public.
High Architect, Harrah Ivi en li Ede, is an exceptionally reasonable woman.
And so it seems reasonable to accept the tale not for its precise interpretation of art and architectural history but for its broad details: Filippo and Donatello probably did go to Rome around 1403 and they may have stayed as late as the summer of 1404.
Again, it was reasonable to mention flesh, which, as being farther away from the Word, was less assumable, as it would seem.
Anyone could apply for an apprenticeship and stand a reasonable chance of being accepted, virtually every apprentice became a wizard, and all wizards were accepted as equals, regardless of whether they had been born to princes, peasants, or even other wizards.
When the amount of sulphur present is not known within reasonable limits, the test portions may be tried with a drop of baric chloride solution instead of sulphuric acid, so that the diminishing quantity of precipitate may give warning of an approach to the finishing point.
Congress with reasonable promptness passed the bill in both Houses for the admission of Colorado, though it was opposed by the more radical class of Republicans because negroes were excluded from the right of suffrage.
Fiat experimentum in corpore vili is a just rule where there is any reasonable presumption of benefit to arise on a large scale.
When and if this day arrives, State statutes and judicial decisions will be given such extraterritorial operation as seems reasonable to the Court to give them.
His identity as a reasonable, cleanly user of language blurs the boundary between Houyhnhnm and Yahoo on which Houyhnhnm culture depends.
It seems reasonable to me to assume that Malchus, having experienced all this -- especially the healing of his ear -- may well have become a follower of Yeshua himself.
It is, at any rate, reasonable to suppose that, as Indian corn belongs to the same botanical order as wheat, barley, oats, rye, timothy, and other grasses, the general manurial requirements would be the same.
A very reasonable way to compute the term, is to reckon three months back from the day when the menses ceased and then add five days to that time, which will be the date of the expected time of confinement.
As this detention was occasioned by an obvious misapprehension of the facts, and as justice requires that we should commit no belligerent act not founded in strict right as sanctioned by public law, I recommend that an appropriation be made to satisfy the reasonable demand of the owners of the vessel for her detention.