senseful

[sens-fuhl]

adjective

1. full of reasonable sense; sound; judicious.

Word History and Origins

Origin of senseful¹

First recorded in 1585–95; sense + -ful

Example Sentences

He allegedly told police that he slapped the woman twice “to try and get her senseful” when she would not leave, but that he didn’t beat her.

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It is not like that of the printer, who, from a chaotic heap of seemingly unmeaning lead, draws out letter after letter, and so disposes them that they shall make senseful and even brilliant lines.

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Often too, Absorbed in books, which were perchance a bane, Perchance a blessing; or in glittering crowds, Gazing all rapt on woman’s eloquent face, Nature’s most witching and most treacherous page; Or high in mirth with those whose senseful wit Outflashed the rosy wines that warmed its flow, I’ve held my vigils till the brow of Night Grew pale and starless, and her solemn pomp, Out-glared by day, faded in hueless space.

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From the gleam of light falling into his eyes while asleep the father draws the solicitous conclusion that a candle has been upset and may have set fire to the corpse; he transforms this conclusion into a dream by investing it with a senseful situation enacted in the present tense.

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The loose associative connection in the dream we have not only recognized, but we have placed under its control a far greater territory than could have been supposed; we have, however, found it merely the feigned substitute for another correct and senseful one.

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