levelheaded

[ lev-uhl-hed-id ]

/ ˈlɛv əlˈhɛd ɪd /

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adjective

having common sense and sound judgment; sensible.

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Origin of levelheaded

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80; level + head + -ed³

OTHER WORDS FROM levelheaded

lev·el·head·ed·ly, adverblev·el·head·ed·ness, noun

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How to use levelheaded in a sentence

If she got caught with a shank, they would up her custody level.
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However, the Air Force is so strapped for people that the ratio has dropped below even that reduced level.
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Here she is in June saying “Trans politics and feminism have never been headed to the same place.”
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Starting under Theodore Roosevelt and Howard Taft, embassies headed by career diplomats increased in number.
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“The level of outside support… has not been sufficient enough for them to distance themselves from al Nusra,” Cafarella said.
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"Here's my authority, yuh blasted runt," he yelled, and jerked his six-shooter to a level with the policeman's breast.
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But he forgot the stagnant town, the bald-headed man at the club window, the organ and "The Manola."
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Yet a child coming under the humanising influences of culture soon gets far away from the level of the savage.
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But the nasty part of the whole thing was, that Haggard had won eleven thousand pounds from a weak-headed boy.
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The height of the tower from the level of the street is 105 feet, the slated towers over the lateral pediments being smaller.
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British Dictionary definitions for levelheaded

level-headed

adjective

even-tempered, balanced, and reliable; steady

Derived forms of level-headed

level-headedly, adverblevel-headedness, noun

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