sane
adjective
Synonyms
- balanced
- clearheaded
- compos mentis
- lucid
- normal
- right
- stable
Example Sentences
Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2022 He's been pretending to be somewhat sane, but now there's no pretending. Chancellor Agard, EW.com, 2 Feb. 2022 For my part, rock represented a subconscious attempt to stay sane while growing up in post-civil-rights-era Gary, Ind. Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2022 But as the pandemic summer passed by, our hikes have revealed themselves as essential learning experiences and a vital way to stay sane as a family. Ryan Van Bibber, Outside Online, 7 Nov. 2020 In the sane world, the recipients of stock-buyback money will reinvest it or buy something, both of which are known to boost the economy. WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022 For liberals in many D.C. circles, Cheney is the most sane of the Republicans available in Washington, a bona fide conservative who didn’t buy the MAGA Kool-Aid. Philip Elliott, Time, 15 Aug. 2022 Ryan, after all, was the P90X workout devotee who was both conservative enough for the Freedom Caucus and sane enough for the more establishment Republicans in the chamber. Grace Segers, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2022 While the object of his affection may share the screen with his son, Chuck looms over the proceedings like a jittery god, typing words that would induce nausea in any sane parent. Mike Postalakis, SPIN, 8 Aug. 2022 See More Word History
Latin sanus healthy, sane
1628, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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Synonyms & Similar Words
- stable
- lucid
- normal
- rational
- sensible
- reasonable
- balanced
- healthy
- clearheaded
- logical
- right
- coherent
- compos mentis
- levelheaded
- wise
- analytic
- clear
- judicious
- sound
- even-keeled
- analytical
- well-adjusted
- well-balanced
- unneurotic
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- insane
- deranged
- mad
- crazy
- mental
- lunatic
- crazed
- demented
- maniacal
- unbalanced
- loony
- nutty
- unsound
- maniac
- psychotic
- wacky
- whacky
- neurotic
- paranoid
- wacko
- certifiable
- screwy
- schizophrenic
- loopy
- looney
- nuts
- whacko
- delusional
- delirious
- daft
- batty
- cuckoo
- schizoid
- disturbed
- daffy
- strange
- aberrant
- disordered
- eccentric
- psycho
- cracked
- balmy
- paranoic
- paranoiac
- crackpot
- odd
- moonstruck
- foolish
- delusionary
- irrational
- crackbrained
- dotty
- scatty
- unreasonable
- schizo
- oddball
- meshuga
- off
- bughouse
- loco
- brainsick
- gaga
- cranky
- paranoidal
- queer
- fruity
- depressed
- frantic
- witless
- hysterical
- frenzied
- hysteric
- senseless
- meshuggah
- pixilated
- nuclear
- meshugah
- distracted
- distraught
- despondent
- bananas
- schizzy
- meshugge
- obsessive-compulsive
- potty
- berserk
- obsessed
- ballistic
- raving
- pixillated
- haywire
- monomaniacal
- schizy
- fixated
- amuck
- ape
- monomaniac
- mixed-up
- amok
- wigged-out
Synonym Chooser
Some common synonyms of sane are judicious, prudent, sage, sapient, sensible, and wise. While all these words mean "having or showing sound judgment," sane stresses mental soundness, rationality, and levelheadedness.
In some situations, the words judicious and sane are roughly equivalent. However, judicious stresses a capacity for reaching wise decisions or just conclusions.
While the synonyms prudent and sane are close in meaning, prudent suggests the exercise of restraint guided by sound practical wisdom and discretion.
While in some cases nearly identical to sane, sage suggests wide experience, great learning, and wisdom.
Although the words sapient and sane have much in common, sapient suggests great sagacity and discernment.
The meanings of sensible and sane largely overlap; however, sensible applies to action guided and restrained by good sense and rationality.
The synonyms wise and sane are sometimes interchangeable, but wise suggests great understanding of people and of situations and unusual discernment and judgment in dealing with them.