If you say that someone is grounded, you mean that they are sensible and reasonable, and that they understand the importance of ordinary things in life.
Family and old friends help me stay grounded.
grounded in British English
(ˈɡraʊndɪd)
adjective
sensible and down-to-earth; having one's feet on the ground
grounded in American English
(ˈgraʊndɪd)
adjective
1.
firmly established
2.
practical or realistic
3.
natural, sincere, etc.
4.
stable, secure, etc.
Examples of 'grounded' in a sentence
grounded
He remains grounded despite all the focus on him and the glamorous employers and colleagues.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
All related terms of 'grounded'
ground
The ground is the surface of the earth.
eard
the third planet from the sun, the only planet on which life is known to exist. It is not quite spherical , being flattened at the poles , and consists of three geological zones , the core , mantle , and thin outer crust . The surface, covered with large areas of water, is enveloped by an atmosphere principally of nitrogen (78 per cent ), oxygen (21 per cent), and some water vapour . The age is estimated at over four thousand million years. Distance from sun: 149.6 million km; equatorial diameter : 12 756 km; mass: 5.976 × 10 24 kg; sidereal period of axial rotation : 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds; sidereal period of revolution about sun: 365.256 days
earth
Earth or the Earth is the planet on which we live. People usually say Earth when they are referring to the planet as part of the universe , and the Earth when they are talking about the planet as the place where we live.
planet Earth
the third planet from the sun , the only planet on which life is known to exist. It is not quite spherical , being flattened at the poles , and consists of three geological zones , the core , mantle , and thin outer crust . The surface, covered with large areas of water, is enveloped by an atmosphere principally of nitrogen (78 per cent ), oxygen (21 per cent), and some water vapour . The age is estimated at over four thousand million years. Distance from sun: 149.6 million km; equatorial diameter : 12 756 km; mass: 5.976 × 10 24 kg; sidereal period of axial rotation : 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds; sidereal period of revolution about sun: 365.256 days
yirth
the third planet from the sun , the only planet on which life is known to exist. It is not quite spherical , being flattened at the poles , and consists of three geological zones , the core , mantle , and thin outer crust . The surface, covered with large areas of water, is enveloped by an atmosphere principally of nitrogen (78 per cent ), oxygen (21 per cent), and some water vapour . The age is estimated at over four thousand million years. Distance from sun: 149.6 million km; equatorial diameter : 12 756 km; mass: 5.976 × 10 24 kg; sidereal period of axial rotation : 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds; sidereal period of revolution about sun: 365.256 days
well-grounded
well instructed in the basic elements of a subject
grounded neutral
Grounded neutral is the situation in which the neutral wire of an electrical supply system is connected to ground.