Good Sense

Definition: Good Sense

Good 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.
 

Synonyms: Good 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: Good Sense

I don't blame you for being scared - not one bit. Nobody with good sense ain't scared of white water (The African Queen; writing credit: C.S. Forester; James Agee)

My mom says women prefer guys with a good sense of humor. (Freaks and Geeks; writing credit: Paul Feig; Judd Apatow)

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

Books

• Child of Mine: Feeding With Love and Good Sense (reference)

• Good Sense and the Faithless Plays (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Feeding With Love and Good Sense (reference)

• Value of a Good Sense of Humor (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

His good sense and good principles would delight you.

There must be, even in puffs, good sense and art.

Some of the latter had already been to see me, and reported strange things of my beauty, behavior, and good sense.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

For weekend get-togethers, barbecues and outings, a good sense of style and conservative dress is key. Casual wear still is not so casual in Argentina. (references)

Economic History

Canada

Add the advantages of congruent time zones, a straightforward regulatory regime, and a common language, and doing business in Canada simply makes good sense. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

arsye e shëndoshë, arësye e shëndoshë. (various references)

Bulgarian 

усет (eye, feel, feeling, flair, nose, prehension, sense, sensibility). (various references)

Czech

dobrý smysl. (various references)

French

sagesse (good behaviour). (various references)

German

vernunft (rationality, reason, sanity). (various references)

Hungarian

jó érzék. (various references)

Italian

giudizio (adjudgement, appreciation, conclusion, judgement, judgment, mind, opinion, savvied, sense, senses, sentence, sight, trial, understanded, verdict, view, wisdom, wit, wits). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

良識 , セル付 (10^-2, a center, bottle cap, celery, cellophane tape, center, centering, centi-, centimeter, centre, ceremony, facility providing funeral services, Scotch tape, select, selection, selector, selenium, sensation, sensational, sensor, serenade, stopper, with a self-starter). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

りょうしき, センス . (various references)

Pig Latin

oodgay ensesay

Russian 

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

Scottish

toimhsean. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

dobar osećaj. (various references)

Spanish

juicio (judgement, judgment, mind, reason, reasonableness, sanity, senses, sensibleness, trial, wisdom, wit). (various references)

Turkish

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

Ukrainian

здоровий глузд (nous, rationality). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lẽ thường, lẽ phải (truth), lương tri (judgement, judgment). (various references)

prudentia, prudentiae, prudentiam. (various references)

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: goodness.

-2 letters: gessoed, godsons, noodges.

-3 letters: donees, geodes, gnoses, godson, goosed, gooses, nodose, noodge, noosed, nooses, odeons, sedges, segnos, sensed, snoods, sondes.

-4 letters: denes, dense, doges, donee, dongs, doses, edges, genes, geode, gesso, goods, goons, goose, needs, nodes, noose, nosed, noses, odeon, ogees, sedge, seeds, segno, segos, sends, sense, sneds, snogs, snood, sonde, sones.

+1 letter: goodnesses.

+4 letters: decongestions, serodiagnoses, xenodiagnoses.

+5 letters: forebodingness.