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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reasonable \Rea"son*a*ble\ (r[=e]"z'n*[.a]*b'l), adjective [OE. resonable, F. raisonnable, fr. L. rationabilis. See {Reason}, n.]
1. Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as, a reasonable being.
2. Governed by reason; being under the influence of reason; thinking, speaking or acting rationally, or according to the dictates of reason; agreeable to reason; just; rational; as, the measure must satisfy all reasonable men.
By indubitable certainty, I mean that which doth not admit of any reasonable cause of doubting. --Bp. Wilkins.
Men have no right to what is not reasonable. --Burke.
3. Not excessive or immoderate; within due limits; proper; as, a reasonable demand, amount, price.
Let . . . all things be thought upon That may, with reasonable swiftness, add More feathers to our wings. --Shak.
Syn: Rational; just; honest; equitable; fair; suitable; moderate; tolerable. See {Rational}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reasonable \Rea"son*a*ble\, adverb Reasonably; tolerably. [Obs.]
I have a reasonable good ear in music. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
reasonable
adjective
1: showing reason or sound judgment; "a sensible choice"; "a sensible person" [syn: {sensible}] [ant: {unreasonable}]
2: not excessive or extreme; "a fairish income"; "reasonable prices" [syn: {fair}, {fairish}]
3: marked by sound judgment; "sane nuclear policy" [syn: {sane}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
134 Moby Thesaurus words for "reasonable": acceptable, admissible, all there, allowable, apparent, appropriate, arguable, balanced, believable, bright, budget, cheap, clearheaded, clearminded, cogent, commonsense, compos mentis, conceivable, conceptive, conceptual, condonable, consequent, conservative, controlled, cool, coolheaded, credible, defensible, discreet, discursive, dispensable, down-to-earth, earthy, easy, economic, economical, economy, equitable, excusable, exemptible, expiable, fair, forgivable, frugal, hardheaded, healthy-minded, ideational, inexpensive, inoffensive, intellectual, intelligent, judicious, just, justifiable, knowing, legitimate, levelheaded, logical, low, low-priced, lucid, manageable, matter-of-fact, mentally sound, moderate, modest, noetic, nominal, normal, not so dumb, of sound mind, pardonable, philosophical, plausible, popular, positivistic, practical, practical-minded, pragmatic, proper, rational, realist, realistic, reasoned, remissible, restrained, right, sane, sane-minded, scientific, scientistic, secular, sensible, shabby, shoddy, sober, sober-minded, sophic, sound, sound-minded, sound-thinking, straight-thinking, strong-minded, suitable, temperate, tenable, thinking, together, token, tolerable, understanding, unexcessive, unexpensive, unextravagant, unextreme, unideal, unidealistic, unobjectionable, unromantic, unsentimental, venial, vindicable, warrantable, well-argued, well-balanced, well-founded, well-grounded, well-thought-out, wholesome, wise, within means, within reason, worldly, worth the money
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
REASONABLE, adjective Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion.
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