SENSIBLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sensibly mean? 

• SENSIBLY (adverb)
  The adverb SENSIBLY has 1 sense:

1. with good sense or in a reasonable or intelligent manner

  Familiarity information: SENSIBLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENSIBLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With good sense or in a reasonable or intelligent manner

Synonyms:

reasonably; sanely; sensibly

Context example:

acted quite reasonably

Pertainym:

sensible (showing reason or sound judgment)

 Context examples 

When poor Mrs. Micawber saw me come in, in my black clothes, she was sensibly affected.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But the second son, too, said sensibly enough: “What I give you will be taken away from myself; be off!” and he left the little man standing and went on.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

This trait of kindness moved me sensibly.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Mrs Croft was attending with great good-humour, and whenever she spoke at all, it was very sensibly.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

It is a matter of great joy to me; and I feel the goodness of Colonel Brandon most sensibly.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He keeps feeding them with his flies, and the number of the latter is becoming sensibly diminished, although he has used half his food in attracting more flies from outside to his room.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Independence was more needful than ever; the want of it at Mansfield more sensibly felt.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And, indeed, I was glad not to have been a spectator of the havoc they made, because I am confident it would have sensibly touched me, by bringing former passages into my mind, which I would rather have forgot.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The happiness which this reply produced, was such as he had probably never felt before; and he expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly and as warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Come! Sit down on this chair, close beside me! Give me the pencil! There! Now let us talk sensibly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)