sane

• POS: Adjective

CIDE DICTIONARY

sane, a. [L. sanus; cf. Gr. , , safe, sound. Cf. Sound, a.].

•  Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally; -- said of the mind.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sane, adj.
1 of sound mind; not mad.
2 (of views etc.) moderate; sensible.

Derivative

sanely adv. saneness n.

Etymology

L sanus healthy

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

sane

Sanity

N sanity, soundness, rationality, sobriety, lucidity, lucid interval, senses, sober senses, right mind, sound mind, mens sana, sane, rational, reasonable, compos mentis, of sound mind, sound, sound-minded, lucid, self-possessed, sober, sober-minded, in one's sober senses, in one's right mind, in possession of one's faculties, sanely.