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8-letter words (1 found)

SENSIBLE,

7-letter words (5 found)

ENISLES,ENSILES,SENILES,SENSILE,SILENES,

6-letter words (17 found)

BELIES,EISELS,ELSINS,ENISLE,ENSILE,ESILES,LEBENS,LENSES,LESSEN,NEBELS,NELIES,SEINES,SENILE,SENSEI,SESELI,SILENE,SILENS,

5-letter words (44 found)

BEINS,BELIE,BENES,BENIS,BESES,BILES,BINES,BISES,BLEES,BLESS,BLINS,BLISS,EISEL,ELSIN,ESILE,ESNES,ISLES,LEBEN,LENES,LENIS,LENSE,LESES,LIENS,LINES,NEBEL,NELIS,NISSE,SEELS,SEILS,SEINE,SEISE,SELES,SENES,SENSE,SENSI,SIENS,SILEN,SILES,SINES,SLEBS,SNEBS,SNEES,SNIBS,SNIES,

4-letter words (57 found)

BEEN,BEES,BEIN,BELS,BENE,BENI,BENS,BIEN,BILE,BINE,BINS,BISE,BLEE,BLIN,EELS,EINE,ELSE,ENES,ESES,ESNE,ESSE,ISLE,LEES,LEIS,LENS,LESS,LIBS,LIEN,LIES,LINE,LINS,NEBS,NESS,NIBS,NIES,NILS,SEEL,SEEN,SEES,SEIL,SEIS,SELE,SELS,SENE,SENS,SESE,SIBS,SIEN,SIES,SILE,SINE,SINS,SLEB,SLEE,SNEB,SNEE,SNIB,

3-letter words (33 found)

BEE,BEL,BEN,BES,BIN,BIS,EEL,EEN,ELS,ENE,ENS,ESS,INS,LEE,LEI,LES,LIB,LIE,LIN,LIS,NEB,NEE,NIB,NIE,NIL,NIS,SEE,SEI,SEL,SEN,SIB,SIN,SIS,

2-letter words (11 found)

BE,BI,EE,EL,EN,ES,IN,IS,LI,NE,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 169 words from sensible according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of sensible

sensible

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɛns.ɪ.bəl/, [ˈsɛn̥sɪbl̩]
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɛns.ə.bəl/, [ˈsɛn̥səbɫ̩]

Adjective

sensible (comparative more sensible, superlative most sensible or sensiblest)

  1. Acting with or showing good sense; able to make good judgements based on reason, or reflecting such ability.
    Synonym: reasonable
    Coordinate terms: prudent, wise, appropriate
  2. Characterized more by usefulness, practicality, or comfort than by attractiveness, formality, or fashionableness, especially of clothing.
    • 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.
  3. (especially formally) Able to be sensed by the senses or the psyche; able to be perceived.
    Synonyms: perceptible, appreciable, detectable
    Antonyms: insensible, imperceptible, unappreciable, undetectable
  4. (archaic) Able to feel or perceive.
  5. (archaic) Liable to external impression; easily affected; sensitive.
    a sensible thermometer
  6. (archaic) Of or pertaining to the senses; sensory.
  7. (archaic) Cognizant; having the perception of something; aware of something.

Usage notes

  • "Sensible" describes the reasonable way in which a person may think about things or do things:
    It wouldn't be sensible to start all over again now.
It is not comparable to its cognates in certain languages (see below at Translations section).
  • "Sensitive" describes an emotional way in which a person may react to things:
    He has always been a sensitive child.
    I didn’t realize she was so sensitive about her work.

Related terms

  • sense
  • sensitive
  • sensory
  • sensual
  • sensuous
  • supersensible

Translations

Noun

sensible (plural sensibles)

  1. (obsolete) Sensation; sensibility.
  2. (obsolete) That which impresses itself on the senses; anything perceptible.
    • 2018, Richard F. Hassing, Final Causality in Nature and Human Affairs (page 4)
      Accordingly, with respect to their knowability or opinability, Socrates makes no distinction among the sensibles between natural things and artifacts (510a5–6); both are relegated to the realm of opinion. Hence, there is no Socratic-Platonic biology.
  3. (obsolete) That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.

Further reading

  • “sensible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “sensible”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “sensible”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sēnsibilis. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [sənˈsib.blə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [senˈsi.ble]

Adjective

sensible m or f (masculine and feminine plural sensibles)

  1. sentient
  2. sensitive

Derived terms

  • sensiblement

Related terms

  • insensible
  • sensibilitat
  • sentir

References

Further reading

  • “sensible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “sensible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “sensible” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɑ̃.sibl/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin sēnsibilis.

Adjective

sensible (plural sensibles)

  1. sensitive
Derived terms
  • sensibilité
  • sensiblement
Related terms
  • sentir

Etymology 2

Ellipsis of note sensible.

Noun

sensible f (plural sensibles)

  1. (music) leading tone

Further reading

  • “sensible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

sensible

  1. inflection of sensibel:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sēnsibilis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /senˈsible/ [sẽnˈsi.β̞le]
  • Rhymes: -ible
  • Syllabification: sen‧si‧ble

Adjective

sensible m or f (masculine and feminine plural sensibles)

  1. sensitive
  2. sentient
  3. responsive

Usage notes

  • Sensible is a false friend, and does not mean reasonable in Spanish. The Spanish word for that English meaning of sensible is sensato.

Antonyms

  • insensible

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • “sensible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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