sensible – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of sensible

Adjective: sensible

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore sensible
Superlativemost sensible

Sample Sentences

  • They ask questions of someone who thinks he's got something sensible to say on some matter when actually he hasn't. [2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 230b:]
  • I only wear high heels on formal occasions; otherwise, I prefer sensible shoes.
  • “Delightful vision! A comfortable armchair, situated in three different draughts, at every ballroom; and nice, large, sensible shoes for all the couples to stumble over as they go into the veranda!” [1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 19:]
  • She was a pleasant-looking woman of about forty, with a deep voice, almost manly in its stentorian tones, and had a large sensible square body, with feet to match—these last encased in good thick boots. [1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 8:]
  • Settle down, raise a family, join the PTA
  • Buy some sensible shoes and a Chevrolet [1985, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “Dare to Be Stupid”, in Dare to Be Stupid, performed by "Weird Al" Yankovic:]
  • 1999, Neil Gaiman, Stardust (2001 Perennial Edition), page 8,
  • They would walk, on fair evenings, around the village, and discuss the theory of crop rotation, and the weather, and other such sensible matters.
  • For Plato the belief in sensible objects is fallible.
  • Air is sensible to the Touch by its Motion, and by its Resistance to Bodies moved in it. [1751, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies, page 1:]
  • The sensible qualities of argentina promise no great virtue of this kind; for to the taste it discovers only a slight roughishness, from whence it may be presumed to be entitled to a place only among the milder corroborants. [1778, William Lewis, The New Dispensatory, page 91:]
  • It has been vouchsafed, for example, to very few Christian believers to have had a sensible vision of their Saviour. [1902, William James, “Lecture III: The Reality of the Unseen”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 54:]
  • [T]he diſgrace was more ſensible than the pain. [1690, William Temple, Miscellanea. The Second Part. […], London: […] T. M. for Ri[chard] and Ra[lph] Simpson, […], →OCLC, section III, page 207:]
  • The discovery of the mines of America […] does not seem to have had any very sensible effect upon the prices of things in England. [1776 March 9, Adam Smith, chapter 11, in An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. […], volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, book I (Of the Causes of Improvement in the Productive Powers of Labour, […]), page 241:]
  • Would your cambric were sensible as your finger. [c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:]
  • a sensible thermometer
  • with affection wondrous sensible [c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene viii]:]
  • He cannot think at any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it. [1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter I, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:]
  • A bright Meſſenger from Heaven, made the Man of GOD ſenſible, That a Remarkable Safety ſhould be granted unto him, and therefore unto all the Company vvith Him. [1723, Cotton Mather, “Agathangelus; or, The Servant of God with His Guardian”, in Cœlestinus. A Conversation in Heaven, Quickened and Assisted, with Discoveries of Things in the Heavenly World. […], Boston, Mass.: […] S[amuel] Kneeland, for Nath[aniel] Belknap, […], →OCLC, page 2:]
  • Diſingaging myſelf then from his embrace, I made him ſenſible of the reaſons there vvere for his preſent leaving me; on vvhich, tho' reluctantly, he put on his cloaths vvith as little expedition, hovvever, as he could help, vvantonly interrupting himſelf betvveen vvhiles, vvith kiſſes, touches, and embraces, I could not refuſe myſelf to; […] (Fanny Hill) [1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, pages 213–214:]
  • we are now sensible that it would have been absurd [1810, Thomas Green, Extracts from the diary of a lover of literature:]

Adjectives inflected like sensible

sensible,

Etymology

From Latin sēnsibilis (“perceptible by the senses, having feeling, sensible”), from sentiō (“to feel, perceive”). See: Latin Adjectives 'sēnsibilis'.