Common Sense

Definition: Common Sense

Common Sense

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 shw had the sense to run away".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Common Sense

Intelligence Wisdom

Wisdom, sapience, sense; good sense, common sense, horse sense, plain sense; rationality, reason; reasonableness; adj; judgment; solidity, depth, profundity, caliber; enlarged views; reach of thought, compass of thought; enlargement of mind.

Crosswords: Common Sense

Common sense and a guy in a wheelchair. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)

You may call it intuition, you may call it common sense, you may call the wind Mariah. (Perfect Strangers; writing credit: Edward Anhalt; Robert K. Massie)

Dreams, dreams always dreams with you, never common sense. (Gone with the Wind; writing credit: Margaret Mitchell; Sidney Howard)

To place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent. (1776; writing credit: Sherman Edwards; Peter Stone)

You know Marty, when you lost your legs I think you lost some of your common sense too. (Silver Bullet; writing credit: Stephen King;)

Aw they ain't got no common sense (Somebody To Love; performing artist: QUEEN; writing credit: Freddie Mercury)

Nothing But Common Sense (1972)

Common Sense (1920)

A Nation of Common Sense (1975)

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Books

• A Quaker Book of Wisdom: Life Lessons in Simplicity, Service, and Common Sense (Living Planet Book) (reference)

• Common Sense (Dover Thrift Editions) (reference)

• Compression for Great Digital Video: Power Tips, Techniques, and Common Sense (With CD-ROM) (reference)

• God's Way to Ultimate Health: A Common Sense Guide for Elimination of Sickness Through Nutrition (reference)

• On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Common Sense American (reference)

• Common Sense Employer (reference)

• Common Sense Foundation Membership (reference)

• Common Sense Pest Control (reference)

• Common Sense (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Common Sense Defense (reference)

• Common Sense Kitchen (reference)

• Common Sense Parenting Learn-at-Home Video Kit (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Common Sense (reference)

• Common Sense Live! at the Belly Up Tavern (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Here the Empress experienced one of those flashes of Common Sense which were the surprise of all around her.

Between us, to open my heart, and confess to my pastor, as I ought, I will confess that I have common sense.

What good I do, in the common sense of that word, must be aside from my main path, and for the most part wholly unintended.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

You can reduce the risk of potentially harmful drug interactions and side effects with a little bit of knowledge and common sense. (references)

In addition, common sense measures around the household -- like close supervision during bathing and keeping poisons out of reach -- can reduce the risk of accidental injury. (references)

When outbreaks occur, community education efforts can be directed at proper food handling techniques, especially thorough cooking of all poultry and other foods of animal origin, and common sense kitchen hygiene practices. (references)

Business

Doing business in Taiwan is different from doing business in the United States, but foreign firms are best served by using common sense and sticking to certain fundamental rules which are briefly discussed below. (references)

Economic History

Ukraine

In the absence of reliable credit histories and business background reports, common sense is the main guide to developing a strong distribution and sales channel in Ukraine. (references)

Bulgaria

In considering a potential agent or distributor, common sense prevails: a U.S. company should not automatically sign up the first Bulgarian company that contacts them, and a due diligence background check of a potential business partner, plus frequent visits by the export sales manager, are essential. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

Common sense precautions one would take in any large, metropolitan area in the United States should be followed in Abidjan as well. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "common sense": he hasn't a vestige of common sense ♦ he hasn't an ounce of common sense ♦ in defiance of common sense ♦ void of common sense. Additional references.

Albanian

mendim praktik. (various references)

Arabic 

‏منطق سليم, ‏تفكير سليم, ‏الفطرة السليمة (horse sense). (various references)

Bulgarian 

здрав разум (gumption, nous, reason, sanity, sense). (various references)

Chinese 

常識 (general knowledge). (various references)

Czech

zdravý smysl, zdravý rozum (gumption, sense), soudnost (judgement). (various references)

Danish

sund ræsonnering (common sense reasoning, commonsense reasoning), fornuftsræsonnering (common sense reasoning, commonsense reasoning). (various references)

Dutch

gezond-verstand redeneren (common sense reasoning, commonsense reasoning). (various references)

Finnish

terve järki, järkevyys (reasonableness). (various references)

French

sens commun (common sense reasoning, commonsense, commonsense reasoning), jugeote, bon sens. (various references)

German

menschenverstand (human understanding), gesunder menschenverstand (horse sense, sanity and reason). (various references)

Greek 

κοινόσ νουσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

ישר� ות (straightforwardness, uprightness), שכל �"ישר (nous), חוש בריא, �"�'יון (logic, rationality, reason), �"ברי טעם. (various references)

Hungarian

józan ész (discretion, horse sense, judgement, judgment, sanity, senses, sober senses). (various references)

Italian

criterio (check, criterion, principle, rule, scale, standard, yardstick), raziocinio (reason), buonsenso (sanity, sense). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

人情 (customs and manners, empathy, human nature, humanity, kindness, sympathy), コミュニケーション科学基礎� "究所 (choral, collaboration, collaborative, collaborator, collage, collagen, collie, column, columnist, COM, COMECON, comedian, comedy, comet, Cominform, comment, commentator, comment-out, committee, common, common carrier, common language, Commonwealth Day, communicate, Communication Science Laboratories, communications intelligence, communications satellite, communicator, communism, communist, Communist Information Bureau, community, community care, community center, community college, community media, community paper, community school, community sports, computer output microfilm system, comsat, corrida, corundum, Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, Komintern, Komsomol, Korea, operator in a telemarketing business, stand-alone feature article framed by a box), 常識 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

に�"じょう (bloodshed, customs and manners, empathy, human nature, humanity, kindness, sympathy), コモンセンス , じょうしき. (various references)

Manx

keeayl vayrey (mother-wit). (various references)

Pig Latin

ommoncay ensesay

Portuguese

senso comum (nous). (various references)

Romanian

simţul realitãţii. (various references)

Russian 

здравый смысл (good sense, nous, sense). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zdrav razum (nous, savvy). (various references)

Spanish

cordura (reason, sanity), sentido común (horse sense), buen sentido (judgement, judgment). (various references)

Swedish

sunt förnuft (gumption, sanity), bondförstånd (mother wit). (various references)

Turkish

sağduyu (farsightedness, foresight, forethought, good sense, horse sense, judgement, lucidity, lucidness, mother wit, nous, prudence, reason, sense), aklıselim (good sense, right-minded). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: commonsense.

-1 letter: commonness.

-2 letters: conenoses, consommes.

-3 letters: conenose, consomme, mesosome, someones.

-4 letters: commons, messmen, noncoms, oneness, someone.

-5 letters: censes, common, comose, cooees, cosmos, menses, mesnes, mesons, nonces, noncom, nooses, osmose, scenes, scones, semens, socmen.

+1 letter: commonnesses.

+3 letters: commonsensible, uncommonnesses.

+4 letters: commonplaceness.

+5 letters: miscomprehension.