reasonable

Definition

  • adjective: fair and sensible
  • adjective: being in accordance with 'reason'
  • synonyms: just, equitable, suitable

Examples

  • I can speak French, or at least a 'reasonable facsimile' of French. [=I can speak French but not very well]

  • Please be more 'reasonable'. There is no way I'll be able to finish all this work in so little time.

  • We finished within a 'reasonable' [='acceptable'] amount of time.

Movie quotes

  • (..) And I'm leaving, finally, this Casablanca. Who'd you bribe for your visa? Renault or yourself? Myself. I found myself much more reasonable. Look, Rick. You know what this is? Something that even you have never seen. Letters of transit (..)
    1942 Casablanca