sensible

Acting with or showing good sense; able to make good judgements based on reason or wisdom, or reflecting such ability.

• They ask questions of someone who thinks he's got something sensible to say on some matter when actually he hasn't.

Characterized more by usefulness, practicality, or comfort than by attractiveness, formality, or fashionableness, especially of clothing.

• I only wear high heels on formal occasions; otherwise, I prefer sensible shoes.
• 1999, Neil Gaiman, Stardust (2001 Perennial Edition), page 8, They would walk, on fair evenings, around the village, and discuss the theory of crop rotation, and the weather, and other such sensible matters.

Able to be sensed by the senses or the psyche; able to be perceived.especiallyformal

• For Plato the belief in sensible objects is fallible.

Able to feel or perceive.archaic

• Would your cambric were sensible as your finger.

Liable to external impression; easily affected; sensitive.archaic

• a sensible thermometer

Of or pertaining to the senses; sensory.archaic

Cognizant; having the perception of something; aware of something.archaic

• He cannot think at any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.
• A bright Meſſenger from Heaven, made the Man of GOD ſenſible, That a Remarkable Safety ſhould be granted unto him, and therefore unto all the Company vvith Him.

Sensation; sensibility.obsolete

• Our temper changed […] which must needs remove the sensible of pain.

That which impresses itself on the senses; anything perceptible.obsolete

• Accordingly, with respect to their knowability or opinability, Socrates makes no distinction among the sensibles between natural things and artifacts (510a5–6); both are relegated to the realm of opinion. Hence, there is no Socratic-Platoni

That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.obsolete

• This melancholy extends itself not to men only, but even to vegetals and sensibles.