gumption in English

noun

1

shrewd or spirited initiative and resourcefulness.

she had the gumption to put her foot down and head Dan off from those crazy schemes

synonyms: initiative, resourcefulness, enterprise, ingenuity, imagination, astuteness, shrewdness, acumen, sense, common sense, wit, mother wit, practicality, spirit, backbone, pluck, mettle, nerve, courage, wherewithal, get-up-and-go, spunk, oomph, moxie, savvy, horse sense, (street) smarts

noun

initiative, resourcefulness, enterprise, ingenuity, imagination, astuteness, shrewdness, acumen, sense, common sense, wit, mother wit, practicality, spirit, backbone, pluck, mettle, nerve, courage, wherewithal, get-up-and-go, spunk, oomph, moxie, savvy, horse sense, (street) smarts
sand, grit, backbone, moxie, guts
good sense, common sense, horse sense, mother wit, sense

Use "gumption" in a sentence

1. You've got gumption.

2. Fred Thompson lacks gumption.

3. Haven't you any gumption?

4. Bet you wouldn't have the gumption to use it.

5. At least she had the gumption to phone me.

6. 6 With gumption and innovation, the enterprise develops unceasingly.

7. We're not talking playing ability. We're talking gumption.

8. With gumption and innovation, the enterprise develops unceasingly.

9. With his gumption he will make a success of himself.

10. It takes gumption to quit a good paying job.

11. Fortunately you had enough gumption not to give up on yours.

12. But Hugh had seemed to have the gumption to make himself new.

13. She won't tell him because she hasn't got the gumption.

14. He didn't have the gumption to keep his mouth shut.

15. It just takes the gumption and guts to do it.

16. But he's got a lot of gumption for trying to do it.

17. Clearing out the wilderness by the Nolachucky River took grit and gumption.

18. The signs had all been there if only she'd had the gumption to read them.

19. He's a nice enough lad, but he doesn't seem to have much gumption.

20. Certain will have big man gumption, There are responsibility meanwhile have a gentle heart.

21. 16 He's a nice enough lad, but he doesn't seem to have much gumption.

22. Dick was always diffident when to staff matters and not been ableto summonthe gumption tothe table.

23. But only if he has the gumption to turn his half - plan into a whole one.

24. Fang demonstrated a little more gumption only once, when Lucius Malfoy visited Hagrid's cabin. Then menacingly.

25. He was amazed to experience his old verve this morning, enough to give him something more than just gumption.

26. She had the gumption to write directly to the company manager and persuade him to give her a job.

27. Add up 50 governors and 535 members of Congress, you don't come close to the gumption of one bold mayor.

28. Wilson speeches often praise the gumption of illegal immigrants who take risks and endure hardships to better themselves and their families.