Antonyms for gumption
ˈgʌmp ʃəngump·tion

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1. gumptionnoun

   Synonyms:
   chutzpah, gumph

2. gumptionnoun

   Energy of mind and body, enthusiasm.

   Synonyms:
   gumph, chutzpah

3. gumptionnoun

   Boldness of enterprise; initiative or aggressiveness, guts; spunk; initiative.

   Synonyms:
   chutzpah, gumph

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gumption

   Synonyms:
   shrewdness, cleverness

Matched Categories

1. • Fortitude
   • Judgment

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, sense, mother witnoun

   sound practical judgment

   "Common sense is not so common"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately she had the good sense to run away"

   Synonyms:
   sensation, sentience, grit, sentiency, good sense, backbone, guts, common sense, sand, moxie, sense, horse sense, signified, sensory faculty, mother wit

2. backbone, grit, guts, moxie, sand, gumptionnoun

   fortitude and determination

   "he didn't have the guts to try it"

   Synonyms:
   mainstay, good sense, lynchpin, grit, mother wit, spine, sand, gritrock, horse sense, gritstone, spinal column, keystone, common sense, linchpin, back, backbone, anchor, rachis, moxie, guts, vertebral column, sense

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1. gumptionnoun

   Synonyms:
   shrewdness, sagacity, discernment, acumen, common sense

How to use gumption in a sentence?

1. USA Today:

   This guy's all wide-eyed gumption and smirking confidence - not the cynic who gets a crash course in the Force later in life.

2. Nina Easton:

   Butthat's clearly the message now that she's trying to send out. Look you know Joe Biden: this is a lot harder and takes a lot more gumption and a lot more work, and a lot more money and a lot more structure than you think.

3. L. M. Montgomery:

   Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

4. Jessamyn West:

   It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes -- it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

5. Sara El-Amine:

   We are a group that really uniquely knows that electability is self-determining and that oftentimes it's the people with the boldest vision and the most unlikely candidacies early on who can really shift the field, elizabeth Warren really has the zest and the grit and the gumption and the audacity that we loved that President Barack Obama really embodied.

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