Definition of levelheaded
: having or showing sound judgment : sensible
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Examples of levelheaded in a Sentence
She is levelheaded about her chances for success as an actress.
a levelheaded assessment of the problem
Recent Examples of levelheaded from the Web
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Tang has a reputation as a levelheaded and hard-working pragmatist who measures her success as a supervisor in terms of effective customer service.
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Over the course of a 14-year N.H.L. career, even the most steady, levelheaded goaltender suffers the occasional slip-up.
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Laid-back yet eager to please, Tully makes a wondrously levelheaded and insightful foil to Theron’s middle-aged mother.
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Less than a third of the country describes him as levelheaded, a figure that has been pretty steady over the course of his presidency.
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The two men were widely known as (take your choice) levelheaded or tight-fisted businessmen, whose other collaborators often wound up unhappy with the divvying of profits.
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The left-leaning Moon has emerged as a levelheaded pragmatist, despite heated sparring and mounting nuclear tensions between the U.S. and North Korea in recent months.
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Why are otherwise levelheaded people willing to make this leap?
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Our Trent Shadid took a levelheaded and numbers-based look at it all.
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First Known Use of levelheaded
1879
levelheaded Synonyms
Synonyms
commonsense, commonsensible, commonsensical, firm, good, hard, informed, just, justified, logical, rational, reasonable, reasoned, sensible, sober, solid, valid, well-founded;
Antonyms
groundless, illogical, invalid, irrational, nonrational, nonsensical, nonvalid, unfounded, uninformed, unjustified, unreasonable, unreasoned, unsound;
LEVELHEADED Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of levelheaded for English Language Learners
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: having or showing an ability to think clearly and to make good decisions
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