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Definition: Commonsense |
CommonsenseAdjective1. Exhibiting native good judgment; "arrive home at a reasonable hour"; "commonsense scholarship on the foibles of a genius"; "unlearned and commonsensical countryfolk were capable of solving problems that beset the more sophisticated". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "commonsense" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references) |
Synonyms: CommonsenseSynonyms: commonsensible (adj), commonsensical (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Commonsense |
| English words defined with "commonsense": heuristic, heuristic program, heuristic rule. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A commonsense approach, in which patients use individual tolerance as their limit, is currently recommended. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | We will make sure that every dollar is spent with the thrift and with the commonsense which recognizes how hard the taxpayer worked in order to earn it. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Our children come first, and that's why I established a bipartisan National Commission on Excellence in Education, to help us chart a commonsense course for better education. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Commonsense" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 50.68% of the time. "Commonsense" is used about 221 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 50.68% | 112 | 30,646 |
| Noun (singular) | 46.15% | 102 | 32,309 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.45% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 221 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "commonsense"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sund fornuft. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gezond verstand. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قضاوت صحیح , حس عام , عقل سلیم (Gumption). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | arkipäättely (common sense reasoning, commonsense reasoning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sens commun (common sense). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | gesunder Menschenverstand (common sense, horse sense, sanity and reason). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοινός νους, κοινή λογική (common sense, gumption). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | senso comune (horse sense). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ommonsensecay senso comum (common sense, nous). (various references) sentido común (common sense, horse sense). (various references) sunt förnuft (common sense, gumption, sanity), resonerande baserat på sunt förnuft (common sense reasoning, commonsense reasoning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Commonsense" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: commensense. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "commonsense" (pronounced kÄ'munse"ns) |
| 5 | -n s e" n s | incense. |
| 4 | -s e" n s | sense. |
| 3 | -e" n s | commence, condense, defence, defense, dense, dispense, expense, fence, hence, immense, intense, nondefense, offense, pence, pretense, Spence, suspense, tense, thence, whence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-m-m-n-n-o-o-s-s" | |
-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. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-m-m-n-n-o-o-s-s" | |
+1 letter: commonnesses. | |
+3 letters: commonsensible, uncommonnesses. | |
+4 letters: commonplaceness. | |
+5 letters: miscomprehension. | |
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