reasonable
part of speech
adjective (reasonable, more reasonable, most reasonable); adverb reasonably
meaning for a pupil
1) Reasonable means fair and sensible. tree →
2) A reasonable amount or price is not too much and not too little. tree →
3) Reasonable can mean fairly good but not excellent. tree →
4) In maths, a reasonable answer is one that makes sense. tree →
sense in the lessons
Maths: check if an answer is reasonable by estimating — 49 × 21 should be about a thousand, so 10 is not reasonable. Everyday life: a reasonable price, a reasonable request, be reasonable. Stories: a reasonable character listens and is fair. Phrases: be reasonable, a reasonable price, a reasonable answer, within reason.
examples
- Please be reasonable and share the toys. tree →
- The jacket was a reasonable price. tree →
- Estimate first to see if your answer is reasonable. tree →
- It's reasonable to ask for help when you're stuck. tree →
- We had reasonable weather for the picnic. tree →
- Is it reasonable that a cat weighs 400 kilograms? No! tree →
- The Jackal thought this reasonable, and let Lambikin pass. tree →
note
Ending -able. «Reasonably» means fairly or quite: «reasonably good». In maths, a reasonable answer is close to an estimate and has sensible units — a pencil 15 kilometres long is not reasonable.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «reasonable» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.