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levelheaded

levelheaded \lev"el*head"ed\ a. exercising or showing good judgment or common sense; sensible.

Syn: healthy, intelligent, sound. [WordNet 1.5] -- lev"el*head"ed*ly, adv. -- lev"el*head"ed*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
levelheaded

also level-headed, 1869, from level (adj.) + head (n.). The notion is of "balanced." Related: Levelheadedness.

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levelheaded

a. (alternative spelling of level-headed English)

WordNet
levelheaded

adj. exercising or showing good judgment; "healthy scepticism"; "a healthy fear of rattlesnakes"; "the healthy attitude of French laws"; "healthy relations between labor and management"; "an intelligent solution"; "a sound approach to the problem"; "sound advice"; "no sound explanation for his decision" [syn: healthy, intelligent, sound]

Usage examples of "levelheaded".

Abdullah de Baza, for not only was the man a proven and doughty warrior, a born leader of men, and a pious Christian of well-proven loyalties, but he had had the invaluable experience of large-scale slaving on the Rio Kongo, was levelheaded, and rational, and possessed a turn of mind that had allowed him to turn disadvantages into very distinct advantages in both military and business senses, over the years of his life in the New World.

He doesn't have the same reputation for being a levelheaded businessman that you do, Boba Fett.

On the evening of the Cape Canaveral verses he sounded more levelheaded than I'd ever known him out of an airplane.

While I can understand Felaras not wanting every bird-brained flitter-head in the Order to go flying off on tangents because of a little bad news, I rather resent that she feels she needn't tell those of us who are levelheaded until she's ready for us to hear things.

We find him now reduced to malted milk and dependent for the necessities of life on the bounty of his daughter Adela, that levelheaded girl who had had the intelligence to marry into Bradstreet.