Acting with or showing good sense; able to make good judgements based on reason or wisdom, or reflecting such ability.
They ask questions of someone who thinks he's got something sensible to say on some matter when actually he hasn't.
Characterized more by usefulness, practicality, or comfort than by attractiveness, formality, or fashionableness, especially of clothing.
I only wear high heels on formal occasions; otherwise, I prefer sensible shoes.
Able to be sensed by the senses or the psyche; able to be perceived.
For Plato the belief in sensible objects is fallible.
Sensation; sensibility.
Our temper changed […] which must needs remove the sensible of pain.
That which impresses itself on the senses; anything perceptible.
Aristotle distinguished sensibles into common and proper.
From Latin sēnsibilis (“perceptible by the senses, having feeling, sensible”), from sentiō (“to feel, perceive”).
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That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.
This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles.