reasonable

reasonable
    adj 1: showing reason or sound judgment; "a sensible choice"; "a
           sensible person" [syn: {reasonable}, {sensible}] [ant:
           {unreasonable}]
    2: not excessive or extreme; "a fairish income"; "reasonable
       prices" [syn: {fair}, {fairish}, {reasonable}]
    3: marked by sound judgment; "sane nuclear policy" [syn:
       {reasonable}, {sane}]
    

Reasonable \Rea"son*a*ble\, adv.
   Reasonably; tolerably. [Obs.]
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         I have a reasonable good ear in music.   --Shak.
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Reasonable \Rea"son*a*ble\ (r[=e]"z'n*[.a]*b'l), a. [OE.
   resonable, F. raisonnable, fr. L. rationabilis. See {Reason},
   n.]
   1. Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason;
      rational; as, a reasonable being.
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   2. Governed by reason; being under the influence of reason;
      thinking, speaking or acting rationally, or according to
      the dictates of reason; agreeable to reason; just;
      rational; as, the measure must satisfy all reasonable men.
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            By indubitable certainty, I mean that which doth not
            admit of any reasonable cause of doubting. --Bp.
                                                  Wilkins.
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            Men have no right to what is not reasonable.
                                                  --Burke.
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   3. Not excessive or immoderate; within due limits; proper;
      as, a reasonable demand, amount, price.
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            Let . . . all things be thought upon
            That may, with reasonable swiftness, add
            More feathers to our wings.           --Shak.
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   Syn: Rational; just; honest; equitable; fair; suitable;
        moderate; tolerable. See {Rational}.
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REASONABLE, adj.  Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. 
Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion.
    

REASONABLE. Conformable or agreeable to reason; just; rational. 
     2. An award must be reasonable, for if it be of things nugatory in 
themselves, and offering no advantage to either of the parties, it cannot be 
enforced. 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 2096. Vide Award. 
    

134 Moby Thesaurus words for "reasonable":
      acceptable, admissible, all there, allowable, apparent,
      appropriate, arguable, balanced, believable, bright, budget, cheap,
      clearheaded, clearminded, cogent, commonsense, compos mentis,
      conceivable, conceptive, conceptual, condonable, consequent,
      conservative, controlled, cool, coolheaded, credible, defensible,
      discreet, discursive, dispensable, down-to-earth, earthy, easy,
      economic, economical, economy, equitable, excusable, exemptible,
      expiable, fair, forgivable, frugal, hardheaded, healthy-minded,
      ideational, inexpensive, inoffensive, intellectual, intelligent,
      judicious, just, justifiable, knowing, legitimate, levelheaded,
      logical, low, low-priced, lucid, manageable, matter-of-fact,
      mentally sound, moderate, modest, noetic, nominal, normal,
      not so dumb, of sound mind, pardonable, philosophical, plausible,
      popular, positivistic, practical, practical-minded, pragmatic,
      proper, rational, realist, realistic, reasoned, remissible,
      restrained, right, sane, sane-minded, scientific, scientistic,
      secular, sensible, shabby, shoddy, sober, sober-minded, sophic,
      sound, sound-minded, sound-thinking, straight-thinking,
      strong-minded, suitable, temperate, tenable, thinking, together,
      token, tolerable, understanding, unexcessive, unexpensive,
      unextravagant, unextreme, unideal, unidealistic, unobjectionable,
      unromantic, unsentimental, venial, vindicable, warrantable,
      well-argued, well-balanced, well-founded, well-grounded,
      well-thought-out, wholesome, wise, within means, within reason,
      worldly, worth the money