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SANE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by sound judgment
Example:
sane nuclear policy
Synonyms:
reasonable; sane
Classified under:
Similar:
rational (consistent with or based on or using reason)
Derivation:
saneness (normal or sound powers of mind)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Mentally healthy; free from mental disorder
Example:
appears to be completely sane
Classified under:
Similar:
compos mentis; of sound mind (of sound mind, memory, and understanding; in law, competent to go to trial)
in her right mind; in his right mind; in their right minds (behaving responsibly)
lucid (having a clear mind)
Also:
rational (consistent with or based on or using reason)
Antonym:
insane (afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement)
Derivation:
saneness; sanity (normal or sound powers of mind)
Context examples:
Laurie bit his lips, and turning a little from the pensive speaker, read the following document, with praiseworthy gravity, considering the spelling: I, Amy Curtis March, being in my sane mind, go give and bequeethe all my earthly property—viz. to wit:—namely
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He could not believe that a sane editor could be guilty of such maltreatment, and his favorite hypothesis was that his poems must have been doctored by the office boy or the stenographer.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Yet he was sane.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
“A man who has been three years biting his nails on a desert island, Jim, can't expect to appear as sane as you or me. It doesn't lie in human nature. Was it cheese you said he had a fancy for?”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
One had to pinch oneself to be sure that one was awake as one heard this sane and practical Professor in cold measured tones describing the monstrous three-eyed fish-lizards and the huge water-snakes which inhabit this enchanted sheet of water.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It must have been this, I suppose, that stirred in my soul that tempest of impatience with which I listened to the civilities of my unhappy victim; I declare, at least, before God, no man morally sane could have been guilty of that crime upon so pitiful a provocation; and that I struck in no more reasonable spirit than that in which a sick child may break a plaything.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“So I stepped in,” said my aunt, “and made him an offer. I said, “Your brother's sane—a great deal more sane than you are, or ever will be, it is to be hoped. Let him have his little income, and come and live with me. I am not afraid of him, I am not proud, I am ready to take care of him, and shall not ill-treat him as some people (besides the asylum-folks) have done.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
At present I am going in my mind from point to point as a mad man, and not a sane one, follows an idea.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Don't you know that I am sane and earnest now; that I am no lunatic in a mad fit, but a sane man fighting for his soul?
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
