Synonyms for common sense
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1. common sensenoun

   Ordinary sensible understanding; one's basic intelligence which allows for plain understanding and without which good decisions or judgments cannot be made.

   Synonyms:
   good sense, native wit, mother wit

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1. common sense

   Synonyms:
   acuteness, astuteness, brilliancy, capacity, intelligence, sagacity, sense, soundness, wisdom

   Antonyms:
   fatuity, folly, foolishness, idiocy, imbecility, incapacity, senselessness, stupidity

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 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:
   gumption, sensation, sentience, grit, sentiency, good sense, backbone, guts, sand, moxie, sense, horse sense, signified, sensory faculty, mother wit

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1. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie:

   The fact though is that we want our kids not to have to decide which bathroom they get to go in. And not to be subject to peer pressure about which one to go in. And not to be subject to the embarrassment that could come with going in a bathroom where somebody maybe doesn't agree that they should be in there or not, why do we do this to our children? It doesn't make any sense. So I don't know. I'm the common sense guy from New Jersey, you know, I don't think life needs to be this complicated. I think it needs to be a lot more straightforward.

2. Jeffrey Epstein:

   Juries are told,' Elie Honig can use common sense, folks. Elie Honig can use the good everyday judgment Elie Honig use out there in the real world,' and I think it's just absolutely unbelievable and implausible that Ghislaine Maxwell herself was somehow Ghislaine Maxwell or somehow didn't realize what was going on.

3. President Trump:

   Countries come in and they put names in a hopper.They’re not giving you their best names; common sense means they’re not giving you their best names, they’re giving you people that they don’t want.

4. Sergei Skripal:

   I hope that common sense prevails.

5. South Carolina Graham:

   He is shallow, he is ill-prepared to be commander-in-chief, he doesn't know what he is talking about in terms of how our laws work, he says the worst things possible about immigrants and women, and he's a complete idiot when it comes to Mideast policy, so I think over time, common sense will prevail.