Antonyms for gumption
ˈgʌmp ʃəngump·tion

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1. gumptionnoun

   Synonyms:
   chutzpah, gumph

2. gumptionnoun

   Energy of mind and body, enthusiasm.

   Synonyms:
   gumph, chutzpah

3. gumptionnoun

   Boldness of enterprise; initiative or aggressiveness, guts; spunk; initiative.

   Synonyms:
   chutzpah, gumph

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1. gumption

   Synonyms:
   shrewdness, cleverness

Matched Categories

1. • Fortitude
   • Judgment

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1. common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, sense, mother witnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   sensation, sentience, grit, sentiency, good sense, backbone, guts, common sense, sand, moxie, sense, horse sense, signified, sensory faculty, mother wit

2. backbone, grit, guts, moxie, sand, gumptionnoun

   fortitude and determination

   "he didn't have the guts to try it"

   Synonyms:
   mainstay, good sense, lynchpin, grit, mother wit, spine, sand, gritrock, horse sense, gritstone, spinal column, keystone, common sense, linchpin, back, backbone, anchor, rachis, moxie, guts, vertebral column, sense

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1. gumptionnoun

   Synonyms:
   shrewdness, sagacity, discernment, acumen, common sense

How to use gumption in a sentence?

1. Nina Easton:

   If you talk to Hillary's aides a couple of months ago, they were making clear that we don't consider this inevitable, we're not going to run like that, butthat's clearly the message now that she's trying to send out. Look you know Joe Biden: this is a lot harder and takes a lot more gumption and a lot more work, and a lot more money and a lot more structure than you think.

2. Jessamyn West:

   It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes -- it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

3. Brian Sigley:

   If you've got the nerve and the gumption to put a piece out like that, you feel like you don't owe anybody anything at that point.

4. Ann Wagner:

   It's hard to do big things. I've passed a lot of bills -- this was hard. And to do hard things, it takes a lot of grit and gumption a little grace from God.

5. Christine Blasey Ford:

   That was certainly what I was hoping was to avoid, having to get on an airplane, but I eventually was able to get up the gumption with the help of some friends and get on the plane.

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