SANE • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Sane

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/seɪn/ Listen

adjective

Sane adj.

Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally; said of the mind.

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.

Synonyms: Sound; healthy; underanged; unbroken.

See images of 'Sane'

Etymology of 'Sane'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Sane" Quotes from Famous Books

... core. Grossness was congenial to her.... Mrs. Behn's indelicacy was useless and worse than useless, the superfluous addition of a corrupt mind and vitiated taste".' One can afford to smile at and ignore these modest outbursts, but it is strange to find so sound and sane a critic as Dr. Doran writing of Aphra Behn as follows: 'No one equalled this woman in downright nastiness save Ravenscroft and Wycherley.... With Dryden she vied in indecency and was not overcome.... She was a mere harlot, who danced through uncleanness ...

— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6) • Aphra Behn

... that five percent of the nation were homeless unemployed and that three point seven percent of those were between the ages of fourteen and thirty. He said that if this schizophrenia kept on progressing, half the world would be in rehabilitation camps. But if that occurred, the sane half would go to pot. Back to the stone age. And the ...

— They Twinkled Like Jewels • Philip Jose Farmer

... the first half of your speech. I have given up everything for religion. That is, I have given myself and all I have to Christ and his service; and whatever I do henceforth, I do only in that character and in that interest. But as to sanity,"—he smiled again,—"I think I was never sane until now." ...

— Nobody • Susan Warner

... resources, we should be poor savages vegetating in the deepest, most brutish misery; it is to the rich inheritance received from our ancestors that we owe ninety-nine per cent. of our enjoyments. If this is so—and no sane person has ever questioned it—then all our brothers and sisters have a right to share in the common heritage. That this heritage would be unproductive without the labour of us who are strong is true, and it would be unfair—nay, foolish ...

— Freeland - A Social Anticipation • Theodor Hertzka

... fear that his cousin's reason must have become unseated. He could not conceive of any really sane man, looking like that, being anxious to be ...

— The Girl on the Boat • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

More quotes...