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gumption 音标拼音: [g'ʌmpʃən] n. 进取心;气概;元气;才力 进取心;气概;元气;才力 gumption n 1: sound practical judgment; "Common sense is not so common"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately she had the good sense to run away" [synonym: {common sense}, {good sense}, {gumption}, {horse sense}, {sense}, {mother wit}] 2: fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try it" [synonym: {backbone}, {grit}, {guts}, {moxie}, {sand}, {gumption}] Gumption \Gump"tion\, n. [OE. gom, gome, attention; akin to AS. ge['o]mian, gyman, to regard, observe, gyme care, OS. gomean to heed, Goth. gaumjan to see, notice.] [1913 Webster] 1. Capacity; shrewdness; common sense. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] One does not have gumption till one has been properly cheated. --Lord Lytton. [1913 Webster] 2. (Paint.) (a) The art of preparing colors. --Sir W. Scott. (b) Megilp. --Fairholt. 3. initiative; resourcefulness. [PJC] 4. Courage; guts. [PJC] 63 Moby Thesaurus words for "gumption":
adventuresomeness, adventurousness, aggression, aggressiveness, ambitiousness, astuteness, audacity, backbone, balls, boldness, bottle, brains, cleverness, common sense, courage, daring, drive, dynamism, energy, enterprise, enterprisingness, force, forcefulness, gameness, get-up-and-get, get-up-and-go, getup, go, go-ahead, go-getting, go-to-itiveness, good sense, grit, guts, horse sense, hustle, initiative, judgement, judgment, mettle, mother wit, moxie, nerve, nous, perspicaciousness, perspicacity, pluck, push, pushfulness, pushiness, pushingness, resourcefulness, sagaciousness, sagacity, shrewdness, spirit, spunk, stamina, up-and-comingness, venturesomeness, venturousness, vigor, wisdom
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