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sensibly /ˈsɛnsɪb(ə)li /adverb1In a way that shows wisdom or prudence: the committee sensibly decided not to go ahead with the meeting the secret to her long life has been eating sensibly...- I praised the women in the audience who sensibly refused to look.
- Parking is sensibly relegated to two subterranean levels below.
- The pair sensibly attempted a less ambitious integration of moderate-size compositions in the more restricted space upstairs.
2In a practical and functional rather than decorative manner: a sensibly dressed, respectable-looking woman...- If sensibly cut, at knee length, shorts are perfectly acceptable for all men.
- She was too neatly manicured and sensibly made up to be homeless, and yet surely too young to be as intelligent as she sounded.
- They dream of destroying it and building a new, more sensibly designed vessel.
3 archaic In a way that is readily perceived; perceptibly: his strength is sensibly diminished the tip becomes sensibly curved in one or two minutes...- Change does not sensibly occur at all until a certain temperature of reaction is attained.
- The system becomes sensibly permanent in a transformed phase.
- The magnitude of the electromotive force does not depend sensibly on the temperature.
3.1In a way that is able to notice or appreciate something; perceptively: he’s sensibly aware of the need...- A shoal of surgeonfish sensibly moves out of harm's way.
- Sensibly, they migrate south in winter.
- It may not yet be a Here where I am, but it is most surely a Here where material existence is sensibly experienced.
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