Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

reasonable person

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.55 in modern English

Syllables: rea-son-able per-son
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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."

noun

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

Inflected Forms

reasonable persons (plural) reasonable people (plural)

Synonyms

man on the Bondi tram man on the Clapham omnibus man on the Shau Kei Wan tram

Questions

What does reasonable person mean?: 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."

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