Meaning

2 senses
  1. A fictional person used as a comparative legal standard to represent an average member of society and how he or she would behave or think, especially in determining negligence; sometimes formulated as "a person of ordinary prudence exercising due care in like circumstances."

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see reasonable, person.

Examples

18 sentences
  1. You're a reasonable person, I hope.

  2. No reasonable person would do that.

    deKeiner mit ein bisschen Verstand würde so etwas tun. — brauchinet

  3. You seem to be a reasonable person.

    ruТы, похоже, разумный человек. — marafon

    deDu scheinst ein vernünftiger Mensch zu sein. — Waldelfe

  4. A reasonable person wouldn't have done that.

  5. I know Tom is a reasonable person.

Translations

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