Sane

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sane \Sane\, a. [L. sanus; cf. Gr. ?, ?, safe, sound. Cf.
     {Sound}, a.]
     1. Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting
        rationally; -- said of the mind.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. 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.
          [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pentosan \Pen"to*san\, n. Also -sane \-sane\ [From {Pentose}.]
     (Chem.)
     One of a class of substances (complex carbohydrates widely
     distributed in plants, as in fruits, gums, woods, hay, etc.)
     which yield pentoses on hydrolysis.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sane
       adj 1: mentally healthy; free from mental disorder; "appears to be
              completely sane" [ant: {insane}]
       2: marked by sound judgment; "sane nuclear policy" [syn: {reasonable}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  SANE
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From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  SANE
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