gumption – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
gumption
n.
(Slang) resourcefulness, initiative; common sense; courage, pluck
Gumption
Gumption is a common word of the English language; see the entry in Wiktionary.
gumption
Noun
1. sound practical judgment; "I can't see the sense in doing it now"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately she had the good sense to run away"
(synonym) common sense, good sense, horse sense, sense, mother wit
(hypernym) sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement, discernment
(hyponym) logic
2. fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try it"
(synonym) backbone, grit, guts, moxie, sand
(hypernym) fortitude
(classification) colloquialism
Gumption
(n.)
The art of preparing colors.
(n.)
Megilp.
(n.)
Capacity; shrewdness; common sense.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
gumption
Synonyms and related words:
adventuresomeness, adventurousness, aggression, aggressiveness, ambitiousness, astuteness, audacity, backbone, balls, boldness, bottle, brains, cleverness, common sense, courage, daring, drive, dynamism, energy, enterprise, enterprisingness, force, forcefulness, gameness, get-up-and-get, get-up-and-go, getup, go, go-ahead, go-getting, go-to-itiveness, good sense, grit, guts, horse sense, hustle, initiative, judgement, judgment, mettle, mother wit, moxie, nerve, nous, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, pluck, push, pushfulness, pushiness, pushingness, resourcefulness, sagaciousness, sagacity, shrewdness, spirit, spunk, stamina, up-and-comingness, venturesomeness, venturousness, vigor, wisdom
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
