{
    "term": "sensible",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "able to make good judgements based on reason and experience rather than emotion; practical",
            "sensetop": "sensible about somethingit is sensible to do somethingit is sensible for somebody to do something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She's a sensible sort of person."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I think that's a very sensible idea."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I think **the sensible thing** would be to take a taxi home."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Say something sensible."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a sensible approach/decision/solution/option"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Diplomacy is the only **sensible way** to resolve this dispute."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This is an eminently sensible approach."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We have to be sensible about this.",
                    "contextForm": "sensible about something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We are just asking people to be sensible about the amount of water they use."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It is sensible to have contingency plans in place.",
                    "contextForm": "it is sensible to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It would be sensible for the government to take precautionary measures.",
                    "contextForm": "it is sensible for somebody to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Ben's usually pretty sensible."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I wish you'd be sensible for once!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was a sensible little girl, and would never get into a car with a stranger."
                },
                {
                    "text": "That wasn't a very sensible thing to do!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "In the state I was in, this seemed a perfectly sensible remark."
                },
                {
                    "text": "That advice sounds sensible enough."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This approach seems very sensible to me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Choose a sensible diet and stick to it."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Personal qualities"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["appear", "be", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "useful rather than fashionable",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "sensible shoes"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "aware of something",
            "labels": "(formal or literary)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I am sensible of the fact that mathematics is not a popular subject."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsensəbl/",
                "audio": "se/sensible/sensible__gb_4.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsensəbl/",
                "audio": "se/sensible/sensible__us_3.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (also in the sense ‘perceptible by the senses’): from Old French, or from Latin sensibilis, from sensus ‘faculty of feeling, thought, meaning’, from sentire ‘feel’."
}