levelheaded
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- levelheadedly adverb
- levelheadedness noun
Etymology
Origin of levelheaded
Example Sentences
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So far, his balancing act is keeping him levelheaded and determined.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026
He urged them instead to do tele–town halls, where the questions can be moderated and the atmosphere more levelheaded.
From Slate • Mar. 8, 2025
A cease-fire would protect the hostages whose lives are endangered by continued bombardment and allow for levelheaded negotiations to secure their urgent release.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 17, 2023
Meanhile Milton has remained the levelheaded unconventionally young fiancé, who continuously talked Lydia down.
From Salon • Oct. 18, 2023
Born in Polish-Ukrainian Galicia, Rabi was the levelheaded physicist who had tartly denounced Strauss’s vendetta against Oppenheimer and had attempted, if fruitlessly, to talk Lawrence and Alvarez down from their starry-eyed pursuit of the Super.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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