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Wiktionary1.0 / 2 votes

  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

English Synonyms and Antonyms1.0 / 1 vote

  1. common sense

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

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

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 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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How to use common sense in a sentence?

  1. Douglas Adams:

    The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

  2. Mel Sembler:

    Logic, common sense tells me he will decide not to run.

  3. Clive Jones:

    Common sense and sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

  4. La Rochefoucauld:

    We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.

  5. President Barack Obama:

    The question is just: is there a way of accommodating that legitimate set of traditions with some common-sense stuff that prevents a 21-year-old who is angry about something or confused about something or is racist or is deranged from going into a gun store.


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