(a.) Capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an impression upon the sense, reason, or understanding; ////// heat; sensible resistance.
(a.) Having the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; capable of perceiving by the instrumentality of the proper organs; liable to be affected physsically or mentally; impressible.
(a.) Hence: Liable to impression from without; easily affected; having nice perception or acute feeling; sensitive; also, readily moved or affected by natural agents; delicate; as, a sensible thermometer.
(a.) Perceiving or having perception, either by the senses or the mind; cognizant; perceiving so clearly as to be convinced; satisfied; persuaded.
(a.) Having moral perception; capable of being affected by moral good or evil.
(a.) Possessing or containing sense or reason; giftedwith, or characterized by, good or common sense; intelligent; wise.
(n.) Sensation; sensibility.
(n.) That which impresses itself on the sense; anything perceptible.
(n.) That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
(2) Quantitative esophageal sensibility, therefore is concluded to be particularly suited to evaluation by electric stimulation.
(3) Historically, councils and housing associations have tended to build three-bedroom houses, because that has always been seen as a sensible size for a family home.
(4) "Do I think it would be sensible for Liberal Democrats to bail out of a five-year plan at the very hardest point after a year?
(5) For tactile modalities, a lesion of the spinothalamic complex causes minimal or no defects and a lesion of the posterior columns causes only slight defects, whereas a lesion of both pathways gives rise to total loss of tactile and pressure sensibility in the part of the body served by both pathways.
(6) These include persisting HSVI of only the distal sensible or vegetative neurones and recurrence of infection with further destruction of ganglia-cells.
(7) Finally, any sensible person must be aware that Labour will find it impossible to govern if it attempts to ignore the national demand for a referendum.
(8) Simply lengthening the working age bracket is a potential disaster, unless the inequalities at the heart of the policy are addressed in a detailed and sensible way and we achieve full employment.
(9) In a Europe (including Britain) where austerity has become the economic dogma of the elite in spite of massive evidence that it is choking growth and worsening the very sickness it claims to heal, there are plenty of rational, sensible arguments for taking to the streets.
(10) "If there is some kind of contrived scheme or vehicle, ie it's obvious that the purpose of the scheme is to avoid paying VAT and it's taking advantage of a loophole and we consider that tax is actually owed on the scheme, rather than just being a case of sensible tax planning … we can make the judgment that this is not legitimate tax planning.
(11) And he failed to engage with these sensible proposals to limit bonuses to a maximum of a year's salary or double that if explicitly backed by shareholders - proposals which even his own MEPs have backed – until the very last minute.
(12) Two sets of equations have been proposed to estimate the convective or sensible (WCV) and the evaporative or insensible (WEV) respiratory heat exchanges.
(13) You cannot hold up a picture of someone being electronically spied on; even worse, you cannot illustrate the psychic damage and cowed sensibilities that come with the fear of being spied on.
(14) I'm concerned, because it opens the door to all sorts of people with opinions that aren't sensible.
(15) More prosaically, but sensibly, the publishing division, which includes all of the company's newspaper titles, will retain the News Corp name when the company's separation occurs in July.
(16) Although there are some circumstances in which it is sensible to privatise, there are many good reasons why wholesale privatisation should be shunned .
(17) I would suggest that the effect on living standards which is so reasonably desired, and which might be expected to reduce the number of small-for-dates babies, is more likely to be accomplished by a sensible sterilization campaign rather than the potentially damaging short-term solution of termination of pregnancy in young women.
(18) Multiple immediate tendon transfers and primary nerve grafting provided for finger flexion and extension plus functional sensibility in this first reported case of an elective cross-hand microvascular transfer.
(19) Within a year, protective sensibility was restored in the replanted hand, but intrinsic muscles were paralysed.
(20) Len McCluskey, the general secretary of the Unite union, told Sky’s Murnaghan programme that it would be sensible for Corbyn to let MPs vote freely.
Witful
Definition:
(a.) Wise; sensible.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
(2) We are already witnessing a wholly understandable uprising of protest.
(3) Among the guests invited to witness the flypast were six second world war RAF pilots, dubbed the “few” by the wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill.
(4) Maguire's colleagues rushed to her side, some administering first aid while others held her attacker, witnesses said.
(5) That’s when you heard the ‘boom’.” Teto Wilson also claimed to have witnessed the shooting, posting on Facebook on Sunday morning that he and some friends had been at the Elk lodge, outside which the shooting took place.
(6) Any party or witness is entitled to use Welsh in any magistrates court in Wales without prior notice.
(7) Solzhenitsyn was acknowledged as a "truth-teller" and a witness to the cruelties of Stalinism of unusual power and eloquence.
(8) Unfortunately, under the Faustian pact we have witnessed a double whammy: fiscal policy being used to reduce government spending when the economy is already depressed.
(9) John Carver witnessed signs of much-needed improvement from the visitors in a purposeful spell either side of the interval but it was not enough to prevent a fifth successive Premier League defeat.
(10) Two officers who witnessed the shooting of unarmed 43-year-old Samuel DuBose in Cincinnati will not face criminal charges, despite seemingly corroborating a false claim that DuBose’s vehicle dragged officer Ray Tensing before he was fatally shot.
(11) He could be the target of more punishing wit, as when Michael Foot, noting a tendency to be tougher abroad than at home, called him "a belligerent Bertie Wooster without even a Jeeves to restrain him."
(12) Thanks to the groundbreaking technology and heavy investment of a new breed of entertainment retailers offering access services, we are witnessing a revolution in the entertainment industry, benefitting consumers, creators and content owners alike.” ERA acts as a forum for the physical and digital retail sectors of music, and represents over 90% of the of the UK’s entertainment retail market.
(13) The observed complications were post-labor hemorrhage (3.1%), polysystolia (4.1%) and vomiting (5.2%), without significant difference with the witness group.
(14) At one, in the Gun and Dog pub in Leeds on Tuesday, a witness described how the meeting descended into chaos when one of the rebels smashed a glass and threatened to attack Griffin supporter Mark Collett.
(15) My mother told me not to cry.” He has since witnessed the transformation of Hagere Selam.
(16) Imagine witnessing a game of bridge being played in the Cabinet War Rooms in the year 2072 AD.
(17) The contrast between the two plans is best witnessed from the small park between the Trade Centre and the 1930s National Assembly, one of the few survivors of the earthquake.
(18) Results indicate that 75% of the participating boys and 10% of participating girls had witnessed the shooting, stabbing, robbing, or killing of another person in their own lives.
(19) FWA chairman Andy Dunn said: "Those members who have been fortunate enough to be working at a match involving Luis Suárez have witnessed an astonishing talent first-hand.
(20) The main pregnancy resolution was vaginal via; only 6.3% of the study group subjected cesarean section against 10.3% of the witness group and the most frecuent indication was stationary dilation (1 and 8 cases respectively).