Definition of "sane" []

• Of sound mind; mentally healthy: "their protector, the strongest and sanest of them all” ( Pat Conroy). (adjective)
• Having or showing sound judgment; reasonable. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "But Purnell's target constituency is now on what I call the sane left."
• "UNIDENTIFIED MALE: PTSD is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, which I define as a sane person's reaction to an insane position."
• ""Is it likely," she resumed, "that a person born under such circumstances is like others -- is what you call sane?""