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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SANE, a. [L. sanus, Eng. sound. This is the Eng. sound. See sound.]
1. Sound; not disordered or shattered; healthy; as a sane body.
2. Sound; not disordered; having the regular exercise of reason and other faculties of the mind; as a sane person; a person of a sane mind.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: mentally healthy; free from mental disorder; "appears to be completely sane" [ant: insane]
2: marked by sound judgment; "sane nuclear policy" [syn: reasonable, sane]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (saner; sanest) Etymology: Latin sanus healthy, sane Date: 1628 1. proceeding from a sound mind ; rational 2. mentally sound; especially able to anticipate and appraise the effect of one's actions 3. healthy in body Synonyms: see wise • sanely adverb • saneness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 of sound mind; not mad. 2 (of views etc.) moderate; sensible. Derivatives: sanely adv. saneness n. Etymology: L sanus healthy

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sane Sane, a. [L. sanus; cf. Gr. ?, ?, safe, sound. Cf. Sound, a.] 1. Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally; -- said of the mind. 2. Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge of the effect of one's actions in an ordinary maner; -- said of persons. Syn: Sound; healthy; underanged; unbroken.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(saner, sanest) 1. Someone who is sane is able to think and behave normally and reasonably, and is not mentally ill. He seemed perfectly sane... It wasn't the act of a sane person. ? insane ADJ 2. If you refer to a sane person, action, or system, you mean one that you think is reasonable and sensible. No sane person wishes to see conflict or casualties. ? insane ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Sound (especially in mind), sober, lucid.

Moby Thesaurus

admissible, all there, balanced, bright, bunkum, clearheaded, clearminded, cogent, commonsense, compelling, compos mentis, conceptive, conceptual, convincing, cool, coolheaded, credible, discursive, down-to-earth, earthy, fit, good, hale, hardheaded, healthy-minded, ideational, intellectual, intelligent, judicious, just, justifiable, knowing, legitimate, level-headed, levelheaded, logical, lucid, matter-of-fact, mentally sound, noetic, normal, not so dumb, of sound mind, oriented, philosophical, plausible, positivistic, practical, practical-minded, pragmatic, prudent, rational, realist, realistic, reasonable, right, right-minded, sage, sane-minded, sapient, scientific, scientistic, secular, sensible, sober, sober-minded, sophic, sound, sound-minded, sound-thinking, straight-thinking, strong-minded, together, understanding, unideal, unidealistic, unromantic, unsentimental, well, well-argued, well-balanced, well-founded, well-grounded, wholesome, wise, worldly