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adjective
- 1. alert and thinking logically and coherently: "he was finally clear-headed enough to make some sort of decision"
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adjective. uk / ˌklɪə ˈhed.ɪd / us / ˌklɪr ˈhed.ɪd / Add to word list. thinking in a clear and sensible way: He was clear-headed enough to realize he was not particularly talented. She offers a clear-headed analysis of the politics behind the war. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Wise and sensible. be a victory for common sense idiom.
1. : having or showing a clear understanding : perceptive. clearheaded comments. 2. : able to think clearly. stay calm and clearheaded. clearheadedly adverb. clearheadedness noun. Synonyms. balanced. compos mentis. lucid. normal. right. sane. stable. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of clearheaded in a Sentence.
able to think clearly: He says that his work keeps him alert and clearheaded. (Definition of clearheaded from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of clearheaded. clearheaded.
us / ˌklɪr ˈhed.ɪd / uk / ˌklɪə ˈhed.ɪd / Add to word list. thinking in a clear and sensible way: He was clear-headed enough to realize he was not particularly talented. She offers a clear-headed analysis of the politics behind the war. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Wise and sensible. be a victory for common sense idiom. cannily.
Example Sentences. Chin and Lin are very clearheaded about the fact that the emergence of the surveillance state is not just a problem in China. From MIT Technology Review. Here are just a few of the ways running kept us clearheaded this year. From Outside Online.
Clear-headed definition: having or showing an alert mind.. See examples of CLEAR-HEADED used in a sentence.
A clearheaded debate between political candidates is much more useful and interesting than a muddled, angry, and confusing argument. The word clearheaded, sometimes spelled with a hyphen, clear-headed, originated in the early 18th century.