REASONED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reasoned mean? 

• REASONED (adjective)
  The adjective REASONED has 1 sense:

1. logically valid

  Familiarity information: REASONED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REASONED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Logically valid

Synonyms:

reasoned; sound; well-grounded

Context example:

a sound argument

Similar:

valid (well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force)

 Context examples 

It was no reasoned impulse that stirred her to do what she then did.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He still reasoned with her, but in vain.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Not that Buck reasoned it out.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“You reasoned it out beautifully,” I exclaimed in unfeigned admiration.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In vain he strove and reasoned with himself as to the madness of letting his mind rest upon Sir Nigel's daughter.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The team reasoned that a combination of higher sea surface temperatures and stronger storms might explain the predicted increases in rainfall rates.

(Why are big storms bringing so much more rain?, National Science Foundation)

“I didn't marry to be reasoned with. If you meant to reason with such a poor little thing as I am, you ought to have told me so, you cruel boy!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I reasoned that a helpless man could start a fire only near to where he lay.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Perhaps I ought to have reasoned thus, he replied, but I could not.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He read them over in order to find out how not to write newspaper storiettes, and so doing, reasoned out the perfect formula.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)