horse sense

Noun

Meaning

sound practical judgment

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

sense gumption common sense good sense mother wit reason prudence understanding intelligence logic perception judgment sanity practicality acumen

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Antonyms

ignorance incompetence absurdity folly futility foolishness

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Hypernyms

judgment discernment sagacity judgement sagaciousness

Hyponyms

logic nous road sense

Examples

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. Dale Carnegie

Horse sense is a good judgement which keeps horses from betting on people. W. C. Fields

The future is better than the past. Despite the crepehangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands...with tools...with horse sense and science and engineering. Robert A. Heinlein

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense. Billy Sunday

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be. Benjamin Spock

Common sense is not so common Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

horse riding outfit horse salt horse scoop horse shoe horse sickness horse sleigh