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Word Meanings - SENSEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of sense, meaning, or reason; reasonable; judicious. "Senseful speech." Spenser. "Men, otherwise senseful and ingenious." Norris.

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  • INGENIOUSNESS
    The quality or state of being ingenious; ingenuity.
  • SENSE
    A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
  • SPEECHLESS
    1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
  • REASONING
    1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
  • SPEECHIFYING
    The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold.
  • REASONLESS
    1. Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind. Shak. 2. Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak.
  • REASONABLY
    1. In a reasonable manner. 2. Moderately; tolerably. "Reasonably perfect in the language." Holder.
  • SPEECHFUL
    Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious.
  • SPEECHIFY
    To make a speech; to harangue.
  • JUDICIOUS
    Of or relating to a court; judicial. His last offenses to us Shall have judicious hearing. Shak. 2. Directed or governed by sound judgment; having sound judgment; wise; prudent; sagacious; discreet. He is noble, wise, judicious, and best knows The
  • JUDICIOUSLY
    In a judicious manner; with good judgment; wisely.
  • REASONIST
    A rationalist. Such persons are now commonly called "reasonists" and "rationalists," to distinguish them from true reasoners and rational inquirers. Waterland.
  • INGENIOUS
    1. Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations; as, an ingenious author, mechanic. A man . . . very wise and ingenious in feats of war. Hakluyt. Thou,
  • REASON
    Ratio; proportion. Barrow. By reason of, by means of; on account of; because of. "Spain is thin sown of people, partly by reason of the sterility of the soil." Bacon. In reason, In all reason, in justice; with rational ground; in a right view.
  • MEAN
    menen, AS. mænan to recite, tell, intend, wish; akin to OS. menian to have in mind, mean, D. meenen, G. meinen, OHG. meinan, Icel. meina, 1. To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you
  • SPEECHIFICATION
    The act of speechifying.
  • MEANDROUS; MEANDRY
    Winding; flexuous.
  • REASONABLE
    1. Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as, a reasonable being. 2. Governed by reason; being under influence of reason; thinking, speaking or acting rationally, or according to the dictates of reason; agreeable to reason;
  • REASONABLENESS
    Quality of being reasonable.
  • MEANDER
    Fretwork. See Fret. (more info) 1. A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. Sir M. Hale. While lingering rivers in meanders glide. Sir R. Blackmore. 2. A tortuous or intricate movement.
  • MISDEMEAN
    To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
  • DEMEANURE
    Behavior. Spenser.
  • INSENSE
    To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
  • REMEANT
    Coming back; returning. "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley.
  • ARAMAEAN; ARAMEAN
    Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. -- n.
  • INTERMEAN
    Something done in the meantime; interlude. B. Jonson.
  • DISPENSER
    One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
  • UNREASONABLE
    Not reasonable; irrational; immoderate; exorbitant. -- Un*rea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*rea"son*a*bly, adv.
  • UNMEANT
    Not meant or intended; unintentional. Dryden.

 

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