sane
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
sane
adj 1: mentally healthy; free from mental disorder; "appears to
be completely sane" [ant: {insane}]
2: marked by sound judgment; "sane nuclear policy" [syn:
{reasonable}, {sane}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sane \Sane\, a. [L. sanus; cf. Gr. ?, ?, safe, sound. Cf.
{Sound}, a.]
1. Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting
rationally; -- said of the mind.
[1913 Webster]
2. Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the
mental faculties in such condition as to be able to
anticipate and judge of the effect of one's actions in an
ordinary maner; -- said of persons.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Sound; healthy; underanged; unbroken.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "sane":
admissible, all there, balanced, bright, bunkum, clearheaded,
clearminded, cogent, commonsense, compelling, compos mentis,
conceptive, conceptual, convincing, cool, coolheaded, credible,
discursive, down-to-earth, earthy, fit, good, hale, hardheaded,
healthy-minded, ideational, intellectual, intelligent, judicious,
just, justifiable, knowing, legitimate, level-headed, levelheaded,
logical, lucid, matter-of-fact, mentally sound, noetic, normal,
not so dumb, of sound mind, oriented, philosophical, plausible,
positivistic, practical, practical-minded, pragmatic, prudent,
rational, realist, realistic, reasonable, right, right-minded,
sage, sane-minded, sapient, scientific, scientistic, secular,
sensible, sober, sober-minded, sophic, sound, sound-minded,
sound-thinking, straight-thinking, strong-minded, together,
understanding, unideal, unidealistic, unromantic, unsentimental,
well, well-argued, well-balanced, well-founded, well-grounded,
wholesome, wise, worldly
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