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sensical

adj
/ˈsɛnsɪkl̩/UK/ˈsɛnsɪk(ə)l/US

Etymology

From sense + -ical; later uses are probably a back-formation from nonsensical.

  1. derived from *sent-✻ — “to feel”
  2. derived from *sinn✻
  3. derived from *sennus✻ — “sense, reason, way”
  4. derived from sēnsus — “sensation, feeling, meaning”
  5. derived from sens, sen, san — “sense, perception, direction”
  6. inherited from sense
  7. suffixed as sensical — “sense + ical”

Definitions

  1. That makes sense

    That makes sense; showing internal logic; rational, sensible.

    • A nonsensical sentence, then, is one which is inconsistent with S, while a sensical sentence is one which is consistent with S.

  2. Having meaning, making sense semantically

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sensical. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA