sanely
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4.1
- adverb
- /ˈseɪnli/
:
sensatamente
- She approached the situation sanely, weighing her options before reacting.
- calmly and sanely
And so I think I am very grateful that I had this seeker disposition that I'm sanely curious.
- And so I think I am very grateful that I had this seeker disposition that I'm sanely curious.
- OK, but we can only hope to live in a same society where reasonable little people adjudicate such matters reasonably and sanely.
Examples
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Enough with these women and their crazy families; better to live alone, quietly, sanely.
Fiction book (1998) -
The old pacifists of the 19th and early 20th centuries at least had to face a multi-polar militarized world, where disarmament could proceed sanely only through international agreement.
Blog text (13) -
How was I supposed to think sanely again about what was real?
Blog text (13) -
Richard, please try to see this sanely.
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I see a few others who speak sanely and soberly.
Blog text (26) -
Happily, a non-partisan state legislature acted sanely and prevented the governor from destroying the state's economy.
Blog text (8) -
Indeed, I had acted so effectively that I was likely—certain?—to get locked up in a psychiatric ward for God knew how long, no matter what I said or how sanely I said it.
Fiction book (1992) -
Rather than allowing him to sit down and calmly, sanely mull the merits of this difficult decision, the answer had ambushed him, an intuition from so deep in the bone that no merely intellectual exercise seemed adequate.
Fiction book (2001) -
Levine wrote about Ozzie Guillen being fired by the Miami Marlins and sanely predicted that Guillen would get into broadcasting somewhere before eventually returning to a dugout as manager.
Blog text (27) -
To solve conflicts effectively, we must communicate sanely and respectfully.
Synonyms
72
2.4
In a sensible way that shows good judgment
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3.9
In a clear, reasonable way based on facts
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3.7
In a way that shows good judgment and practical choices
Antonyms
How Reasonable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sanely comes from sane, which comes from the Latin sanus meaning 'healthy' and is the same root as sanity and sanitary. So to act sanely is to behave in a 'healthy', calm, and reasonable way.