noun · uncountable · rare

gumption

gump·tion

відчуття, значення, сенс

находчивость

Vernunft, Biss, Grips, Durchhaltevermögen

Common sense, initiative, resourcefulnessCommon sense, initiative, resourcefulness.

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/ˈɡʌmpʃən/

» I admire your gumption.

Meaning

3 senses

(Ireland, UK, uncountable, usually)Common sense, initiative, resourcefulness.
Grips, Vernunft
находчивостьnaxodčivostʹ
(US, uncountable, usually)Boldness of enterprise; aggressiveness or initiative.
Biss, Durchhaltevermögen, Unternehmenssinn
(US, uncountable, usually)Energy of body and mind, enthusiasm.
Enthusiasmus, Lebenslust

More definitions

sound practical judgment
fortitude and determination

Examples

5 sentences

I admire your gumption.
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He had the gumption to take my car without asking.
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I like your gumption, kid.
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I had a lot of gumption when I was young, but now it seems to have all petered out.
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Every evening he told her that anybody with ordinary gumption ought to realize that night air was bad for the human frame.
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Translations

6 languages

Русский

By meaning 1

common sense, initiative:

Deutsch

By meaning 3

common sense, initiative:

boldness of enterprise:

energy of body and mind:

Origin

Borrowed from Scots gumption (“common sense, shrewdness; drive, initiative”); further etym

Borrowed from Scots gumption (“common sense, shrewdness; drive, initiative”); further etymology unknown, possibly connected with Middle English gome (“attention, heed”), from Old Norse gaumr (“attention, heed”), from Proto-Germanic *gaumō. English cognates include gaum (“to comprehend, understand”) and goam (“to recognize, see”).

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