From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sane \Sane\, adjective [L. sanus; cf. Gr. ?, ?, safe, sound. Cf. {Sound}, adjective]
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pentosan \Pen"to*san\, noun Also -sane \-sane\ [From {Pentose}.] (Chem.) One of a class of substances (complex carbohydrates widely distributed in plants, as in fruits, gums, woods, hay, etc.) which yield pentoses on hydrolysis. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: mentally healthy; free from mental disorder; "appears to be completely sane" [ant: {insane}]
2: marked by sound judgment; "sane nuclear policy" [syn: {reasonable}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "sane": 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
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
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