Entry Word: reasonable

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 according to the rules of logic <his answer is perfectly reasonable> — see logical 1
2 based on sound reasoning or information <those playing rules sound reasonable to me> — see good 1
3 costing little <desperately trying to find reasonable hotel rates for the holiday weekend> — see cheap 1
4 having the ability to reason <some people once believed that women were not by nature reasonable beings, but generations of female scholars have proved those people wrong> — see rational 1