ADJECTIVE sane COMPARATIVE saner SUPERLATIVE sanest

sane English

Meaning sane meaning

What does sane mean?

Definitions in simple English

sane Adjective

— If you are sane, you think and feel in a normal way. You do not have mental illness.

— If something is sane, it is organized and normal; it makes sense.

sane

— adjective mentally healthy; free from mental disorder appears to be completely sane

— adjective marked by sound judgment sane nuclear policy

Synonyms sane synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as sane?

sane English » English

sensible

reasonable

well

sound

normal

healthy

sober

whole

sound-minded

rational

of sound mind

lucid

judicious

hale

fit

able-bodied

wise

well-balanced

unspoiled

undamaged

uncorrupted

unconstricted

sober-minded

sapient

sage

sagacious

right-minded

right as rain

prudent

of sound judgement

logical

howdy

good day

good

conscious

commonsensical

commonsensible

clear-headed

clean

calm

attractive

Topics sane topics

What do people use sane to talk about?

Person Healthy

Mental illness

• What words refer to someone who is normal and not mentally ill?
  sane sanity of sound mind

Social behavior Behavior Good, moral Mature in behavior

Sensible

• What words describe someone who is sensible?
  sensible thoughtful astute calculating cautious circumspect discreet discriminating foresighted judicious logical practical pragmatic prudent rational realistic reasonable sagacious sane sensible sensibly sensitive sound thoughtful wholesome

Examples sane examples

How do I use sane in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.

In a mad world only the mad are sane.

He was stressed, certainly, but sane.

I'm the last sane man in the world.

A sane man wouldn't do that.

Tom isn't sane.

Hey, are you remotely sane?!

A sane mind is in a sound body.

Is Tom sane?

Are you sane?

Movie subtitles

You are sane.

One man crazy, three very sane spectators.

I'm astonishingly sane, Doctor.

But I hope you're sane enough to remember. that we have a consultation at the Duchess of Densmore's.

Only in yours have I found a sane point of view.

She sounds completely sane to me.

If you resist them, you're sane if you don't, you're on your way to the nuthouse or the pen.

But in the opinion of the court, you are not only sane. but you are the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom.

Is this thing to go on. or are we sane and normal human beings to put an end to it. and an end to all such follies forever?

There's nothing wrong in liking a man who's sane and considerate.

Alienist says he's sane. Interview shows he's goofy.

He said they were sane.

So I couldn't plead insanity. I'm just as sane as anybody else.

He's just as sane as I am.

I'm quite sane, I assure you.

But in the opinion of the court, you are not only sane, you are the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom.

He may not go around with straws in his hair, but he isn't sane. Therefore, not legally responsible.

In the course of your medical experience you've probably run across such persons perfectly sane except on the subject of their monomania.

The rest of you still think he was sane?

He's sane.

MAN 2: The man is sane.

Dr. Clitterhouse, as a competent medical authority do you believe it possible for an insane man to write a sane book?

Because I'm sane and active and as strong as a horse.

So, you see, I couldn't plead insanity because I'm just as sane as anybody else.

First sane remark I've heard today.

Listen I'm as sane as you are and if you think I had anything to do with it, you're crazy.

There are other men here, sane men.

Too sane for my own good.

Another woman, quite sane, so she can do her accounting.

I am so stupid that no sane person should care about me.

I may be drunk, but I'm perfectly sane.

News and current affairs

Murdering more than 60 innocent young people at a summer camp with an assault rifle, after bombing a chunk of central Oslo, is, to put it mildly, morally eccentric - something most sane people would never dream of doing.

But sane people would rather avoid inflation.

There must be a stop to this zero-sum game and a return to a sane policy based on reason, reciprocity, and compromise.

No sane politician will commit to another decade of structural reforms that will test the patience of ordinary Latin Americans beyond the limits of electoral survival.

America's real freedoms depend on sane public policy.