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Sanely

Definitions: Sanely

Sanely

Adverb

1. With good sense or in a reasonable or intelligent manner; "he acted sensibly in the crisis"; "speak more sanely about these affairs"; "acted quite reasonably".

2. In a sane or lucid manner; "she is behaving rather sanely these days even though we know she is schizophrenic".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sanely" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references)

Synonyms: Sanely

Synonyms: reasonably (adv), sensibly (adv). (additional references)
Antonyms: insanely (adv), unreasonably (adv). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Sanely

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Sanity

Adverb: sanely;Adjective:

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Sanely

English words defined with "sanely": reasonablysensibly. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Sanely

DomainTitle

Books

  • Living Sanely in an Insane World: Philosophy for Real People (reference)

  • Take Your Kids to Europe: How to Travel Safely (And Sanely) in Europe With Your Children: Hostels, Restaurants, Camping, Language, Parenting, Home r (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Sanely

AuthorQuotation

Stuart Chase

Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Sanely

"Sanely" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sanely" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%8124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Sanely

Language Translations for "sanely"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

terveesti (soundly). (various references)

   

German

  

zurechnungsfähige. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σωφρονώσ (wisely). (various references)

   

Italian

  

in modo sensato. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

anelysay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

здраво (sensibly, soundly). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Sanely

Derivations

Words ending with "sanely": insanely. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Sanely" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anelay, anely, Asenby, ashely, Asinelli, Asnele, manely, panely, Sagnella, sahel, Saherli, samely, sanal, Sanay, Sanel, Saniyya, Sanjeye, Santley, Saveli, saveloys, Shanley, Sianel, simely, singely, snaily, Snelly, spanel, stanly, zanly. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Sanely

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-l-n-s-y"

-1 letter: elans, lanes, leans, lyase, yeans.

-2 letters: ales, anes, ayes, easy, elan, eyas, lane, lase, lays, lean, leas, lens, leys, lyes, lyse, nays, sale, sane, seal, slay, snye, syne, yean, yeas, yens.

-3 letters: ale, als, ane, any, aye, ays, els, ens, las, lay, lea, ley, lye, nae, nay, sae, sal, say, sea, sel, sen, sly, syn, yea, yen, yes.

-4 letters: ae, al, an, as, ay, el, en, es, la, na, ne, ya, ye.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-l-n-s-y"
 

+1 letter: adenyls, alkynes, analyse, elysian.

 

+2 letters: absently, amylenes, analysed, analyser, analyses, analyzes, ankylose, anolytes, baloneys, blarneys, dyspneal, hyalines, inlayers, insanely, laneways, langleys, langsyne, larynges, larynxes, mesnalty, playpens, saliency, seamanly, secantly, sneakily, uneasily, unsafely, yealings.

 

+3 letters: aglycones, amylogens, analysers, analyzers, ankylosed, ankyloses, asininely, cyclamens, earnestly, hyalogens, hymeneals, interlays, langsynes, layerings, layperson, lazybones, lyonnaise, manslayer, polypneas, salarymen, saliently, sapiently, searingly, seminally, sensately, sensually, strangely, sylvanite, synalepha, teasingly, underlays, unsayable, unshapely, yeanlings, yearlings.

 

+4 letters: acetylenes, amplidynes, aneurysmal, bellybands, gyroplanes, handsomely, hesitantly, interplays, invasively, jellybeans, laryngeals, lawyerings, laypersons, lengthways, manifestly, manslayers, minelayers, miscellany, mistakenly, monolayers, namelessly, narcolepsy, nauseously, nonlawyers, obeisantly, painlessly, pargylines, personally, personalty, planlessly, pleasantly, pleasantry, pleasingly, polyamines, ravenously, reanalyses, reanalysis, reanalyzes, reasonably, resonantly, roundelays, sanguinely, scenically, screenplay, seasonably, seasonally, sensuality, slatternly, sneakingly, supernally, sylvanites, synalephas, synaloepha, thylacines, unchastely, underplays, unsteadily, urinalyses.

 

+5 letters: abstinently, anaphylaxes, ancestrally, antileprosy, antislavery, arrestingly, ascendantly, assemblyman, assemblymen, barleycorns, brainlessly, cancerously, caressingly, cavernously, commensally, crystalline, cutaneously, dangerously, dauntlessly, delusionary, encyclicals, endosteally, erosionally, essentially, expansively, festinately, grandiosely, hydroplanes, hyperplanes, hypersaline, incessantly, inescapably, inestimably, inexcusably, insatiately, insensately, inseparably, insuperably, interlayers, ladyfingers, larcenously, lyricalness, masculinely, melanocytes, mesenchymal, metanalyses, metanalysis, misanalyses, misshapenly, necessarily, nefariously, observantly, obstinately, pennyroyals, personality, phalanstery, playfulness, polyandries, presentably, raylessness, resultantly, salmonberry, screamingly, screenplays, searchingly, seasonality, secondarily, sectionally, segmentally, semitonally, sensorially, stainlessly, statesmanly, subjacently, superlunary, sustainedly, synaloephas, tenaciously, thanklessly, transiently, treasonably, typicalness, unabashedly, unadvisedly, unashamedly, unceasingly, undesirably, universally, unspeakably.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Sanely


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 61 6E 65 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100001 01101110 01100101 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#97 &#110 &#101 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0061 006E 0065 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

536780717891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Usage Frequency
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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