English Explanatory Dictionary

sane

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; thinking rationally.
  2. Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge the effect of one's actions in an ordinary manner.
  3. Rational; reasonable; sensible.
noun
  1. Initialism of sexual assault nurse examiner.
  2. Ellipsis of SANE disc, a type of black hole accretion disc.
adj
  1. Acronym of standard and normal evolution.

Pronunciation

/seɪn/ sān LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sane.wav

Word forms

sane saner sanest SANEs

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sānus (“healthy; sane”). Doublet of sound.

Synonyms

sane balanced compos mentis in possession of one's faculties lucid rational reasonable sound-minded in one's right mind play with a full deck

Antonyms

insane crazy unbalanced nonsane unsane

Related words

nome sane sanity mental health compos mentis right-minded

Derived words

nonsane sanely saneness sanewash sanewashing sanism sanist unsane
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on S Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary