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Definition of Reasonable
1. Adjective. Showing reason or sound judgment. "A sensible person"
Attributes: Reasonableness
Also: Fair, Just, Logical, Rational, Valid
Similar to: Commonsense, Commonsensible, Commonsensical, Healthy, Intelligent, Level-headed, Levelheaded, Sound, Tenable, Well-founded
Derivative terms: Reasonableness, Reasonableness, Sensibleness
Antonyms: Unreasonable
2. Adjective. Not excessive or extreme. "Reasonable prices"
Similar to: Moderate
Derivative terms: Fairness, Reasonableness, Reasonableness
3. Adjective. Marked by sound judgment. "Sane nuclear policy"
Definition of Reasonable
1. a. Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as, a reasonable being.
2. adv. Reasonably; tolerably.
Definition of Reasonable
1. Adjective. Just; fair; agreeable to reason. ¹
2. Adjective. Not expensive; fairly priced. ¹
3. Adjective. Satisfactory. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Reasonable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reasonable
Literary usage of Reasonable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure by William Mack, Howard Pervear Nash (1903)
"What Is a Reasonable Time. The courts have not fixed upon any particular time
... 533, § 71, requiring demand notes to be presented within a reasonable time ..."
2. Engineering Valuation of Public Utilities and Factories by Horatio Alvah Foster (1912)
"Reasonable' is a relative term, and what is reasonable depends upon many varying
... But in*determining what are reasonable rates, so as to produce a ..."
3. Principles of Contract at Law and in Equity: Being a Treatise on the General by Frederick Pollock (1876)
"The contract must be rescinded within a reasonable time, Rescission that is,
before the lapse of a time after the true state of things is ^"J,',, known (r), ..."
4. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1874)
"The distinction, then, between ' reasonable ' and 'un- A 'reason- reasonable '
desires—and it is only desires that can be ".1'le' 'IL'~ referred to when ..."
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