Word Finder - reasonable

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Having the faculty of reason; rational, reasoning.

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Just; fair; agreeable to reason.

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Not excessive or immoderate; within due limits; proper.

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a reasonable demand, amount, or price

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Not expensive; fairly priced.

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$20 a bottle is very reasonable for a good wine at a restaurant.

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Satisfactory.

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The builders did a reasonable job, given the short notice.

It was a reasonable concern.

He was a reasonable man and she had never known him to shirk his responsibilities.

Where was the closest town of any reasonable size?

The words were reasonable to her tired mind.

Oddly, it still seemed reasonable even as we coasted through three red lights to get home.

Nina Ess aims to give women handbags of quality at reasonable prices.

Dean couldn't bring himself to think of any of them seriously, given their lack of reasonable motive.

The choice was reasonable.

The desire is reasonable, moral, social, religious; it has the same worth as the loftiest ideals, and worthiest aspirations of the soul of man.

This word, he complains, should denote the heavenly food, the reasonable feast alone, and the Lord never used it of mere junketings.

The council takes every reasonable precaution to secure its open land.

It seems reasonable to include any quality schemes they use.

But Mr Hofmeyr's mission, like every other mission to Mr Kruger to induce him to take a reasonable and equitable course, proved entirely fruitless.

It seems to me, the jury is still out on this mess but if Shipton is stalking her, legally or not, she deserves reasonable protection until we know for sure.

In uncertain tenancies there must be reasonable notice - i.e.

These Khatti, there is no reasonable doubt, are identical with Kheta.

There can be no reasonable doubt that as soon as the Athenians began to recover from the paralysing effect of the victory of Lysander and the internal troubles in which they were involved by the government of the Thirty, their thoughts turned to the possibility of recovering their lost empire.

So much seems to be beyond reasonable doubt.

Thus, ' stress ', is, with some limitations, considered to be a reasonable proxy for reliability.

With the help of their architect, most parishes can make reasonable estimates of what costs the next quinquennial is likely to incur.

This is perfectly reasonable; in principle then we can find primes quickly.

But once admit (as it is only reasonable to do) the extension of Jewish editorial activity to the prophetic books and all becomes clear.

It is reasonable, therefore, to conclude that ornament is a stimulus to sexual selection, and this conclusion is enforced by the fact that among many comparatively nude peoples clothing is assumed at certain dances which have as their confessed object the excitation of the passions of the opposite sex.

The oldest and perhaps most reasonable idea represents guncotton as cellulose trinitrate, but this has been much disputed, and various formulae, some based on cellulose as C, 2 H200 10, others on a still more complex molecule, have been proposed.

It is, however, reasonable to suppose that his commanding intellect often makes itself felt in the words of Sydenham.

On the other hand in the case of uncertain and irregular deposits, the value of which varies between very wide limits, as, for example - in most metal mines and especially mines of gold and silver - a very large number of samples must be taken - sometimes not more than two or three feet apart - in order that the average value of the ore may be known within reasonable limits of error.

There is reason, however, to believe that the uncertainty in regard to many of these names will eventually be resolved into reasonable certainty.

The parlamenti were abolished and a monte di pieta to advance money at reasonable interest was created.

But his artistic instincts are higher than those of the Chinese, and there is reasonable hope that,in time he may excel their best works.

Rotating zinc cathodes were used, with scrapers to prevent the accumulation of a layer of insoluble magnesium compounds, which would otherwise increase the electrical resistance beyond reasonable limits.

When the storm had discharged itself in the Japanese war, reasonable statesmen on both sides, King Edward, Lord Lansdowne, and the Russian Foreign Minister Isvolsky, changed the course both for Great Britain and for Russia, and thus frustrated the plans of the tertius gaudens.

The charge of Socinianism was frequently brought against him, but, as Tillotson thought, "for no other cause but his worthy and successful attempts to make the Christian religion reasonable."

It is not indeed that these methods have not claimed to solve the questions at issue, but that their solutions have failed to satisfy the larger body of reasonable criticism.

Each of these has its legitimate province, and the extent of this province can in most cases be defined with reasonable certainty.

A petition for a divorce may be presented after a residence within the state of one year immediately preceding, and a decree may be granted against the defendant if judged guilty of adultery, desertion for two years without reasonable cause, habitual drunkenness, such inhuman treatment as to endanger the life of the plaintiff, or if convicted of felony after marriage.

There need be no contradiction between idealism and a reasonable pragmatism.

Thus regarded, it becomes reasonable to suppose that North and South America have in a broad way been developed under a succession of somewhat similar strains in the earth's crust, and that they are, in so far, favourable witnesses to the theory that there is something individual in the plan of continental growth.

Beyond reasonable doubt, however, the writer seeks to take out the sting of the preceding passage in which Israel is devoted to utter destruction.

That Apollos visited Italy at any rate once during Paul's imprisonment in Rome is a reasonable inference from Titus iii.

The suggested origin of the name Antwerp from Hand-werpen (hand-throwing), because a mythical robber chief indulged in the practice of cutting off his prisoners' hands and throwing them into the Scheldt, appeared to Motley rather farfetched, but it is less reasonable to trace it, as he inclines to do, from an t werf (on the wharf), seeing that the form Andhunerbo existed in the 6th century on the separation of Austrasia and Neustria.

Portland cement concrete, on the other hand, may be used without fear in sea-water, provided that certain reasonable precautions are taken.

And, when the whole facts are borne in mind, there can be no reasonable doubt that the Mendelian principles offer an intelligible solution of the problem.

Taken as a whole, the finches, concerning which no reasonable doubt can exist, are not only little birds with a hard bill, adapted in most cases for shelling and eating the various seeds that form the chief portion of their diet when adult, but they appear to be mainly forms which predominate in and are highly characteristic of the Palaearctic Region; moreover, though some are found elsewhere on the globe, the existence of but very few in the Notogaean hemisphere can as yet be regarded as certain.

A heaven of quarrelling divinities cannot inspire a reasonable worship. These gods are not even respectable; how can they be adorable ?

But reasonable judgment must find very unjust the stigma of duplicity put upon him by the Federalists.

Four of the nominated members are selected on the ground mainly of their thorough acquaintance with " the reasonable wants and wishes " of the coloured races in South Africa.

It is reasonable also to suppose that there was some ground for it.

His scrupulous conscientiousness and anxiety to meet every reasonable claim availed him nothing with such antagonists, and the strain was intense and continuous.

Kindly and reasonable, his good nature seems sometimes to have verged on indolence, but he at any rate took personal part, and that bravely and successfully, in war.

Two things in this obscure affair are beyond reasonable doubt.