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This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.
Bob Ney

Meaning of "common-sense" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COMMON-SENSE

common-sense  [ˈkɒmənˈsɛns] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMMON-SENSE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Common-Sense is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES COMMON-SENSE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

common-sense

Common sense

Common sense is a basic ability to perceive, understand, and judge things, which is shared by nearly all people, and can be reasonably expected of nearly all people without any need for debate. The everyday understanding of what common sense is derives from philosophical discussion, involving several European languages. Related words in other languages include Latin sensus communis, Greek κοινὴ αἲσθησις, and French bon sens, but these are not straightforward translations in all contexts. Similarly in English, there are different shades of meaning, implying more or less education and wisdom: "good sense" is sometimes seen as equivalent to "common sense", and sometimes not. "Common sense" has at least two specifically philosophical meanings. One is a capability of the animal soul proposed by Aristotle, which enables different individual senses to collectively perceive characteristics such as movement and size, which are common to all things, and which help people and other animals to distinguish and identify things. It is distinct from basic sensory perception and from human rational thinking, but works with both.

Definition of common-sense in the English dictionary

The definition of common-sense in the dictionary is inspired by or displaying sound practical sense.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COMMON-SENSE


cense
sɛns
commence
kəˈmɛns
defence
dɪˈfɛns
dense
dɛns
expense
ɪkˈspɛns
fence
fɛns
frankincense
ˈfræŋkɪnˌsɛns
hence
hɛns
immense
ɪˈmɛns
incense
ˈɪnsɛns
intense
ɪnˈtɛns
missense
ˌmɪsˈsɛns
multisense
ˈmʌltɪˌsɛns
offence
əˈfɛns
pence
pɛns
sense
sɛns
subsense
ˈsʌbˌsɛns
suspense
səˈspɛns
tense
tɛns
unsense
ʌnˈsɛns

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COMMON-SENSE

common time
common toad
common weal
common wintergreen
common zebra
common-core syllabus
common-law husband
common-law marriage
common-law wife
common-or-garden
commonable
commonage
commonalities
commonality
commonalties
commonalty
commoner
commoney
commonhold
commonly

WORDS THAT END LIKE COMMON-SENSE

common sense
defense
Department of Defense
dispense
dress sense
driver´s license
fashion sense
horse sense
license
make sense
muscle sense
no-nonsense
nonsense
Odense
offense
Ourense
pretense
road sense
sixth sense
undersense

Synonyms and antonyms of common-sense in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «COMMON-SENSE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «common-sense» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of common-sense

Translation of «common-sense» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COMMON-SENSE

Find out the translation of common-sense to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of common-sense from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «common-sense» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

常识
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

de sentido común
570 millions of speakers

English

common-sense
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आम भावना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

البديهية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

здравого смысла
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

de senso comum
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সাধারণ বোধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bon sens
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

akal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

common-sense
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

常識的な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

상식
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Umum-raos
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chung cảm giác
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பொது அறிவு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

साधी गोष्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sağduyu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

senso comune
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zdroworozsądkowe
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

здорового глузду
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bun-simț
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κοινή λογική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gesonde verstand
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sunt förnuft
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

common-sense
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of common-sense

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COMMON-SENSE»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about common-sense

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10 QUOTES WITH «COMMON-SENSE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word common-sense.
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Roy Blunt
The Keystone Pipeline is one common-sense step in the right direction to help put more people back to work, reduce prices at the pump, and position our nation for greater energy security now and in the future.
2
Darell Hammond
During National Playground Safety Week, I'll celebrate common-sense safety. I'll also celebrate skinned knees and bruised elbows. I'll celebrate so-called 'dangerous' playgrounds - playgrounds with see-saws, zip lines and towering slides.
3
Martin Heinrich
Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities.
4
Jeffrey Kluger
There's plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it's all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks and the relentlessly repeated magic of date night with your spouse. What's missing is some 'tude.
5
Herb Kohl
After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.
6
John Larson
I would rather be erring on the side of common-sense pragmatism and doing everything possible so that I felt that no stone was left unturned in terms of trying to protect school children.
7
Bob Ney
This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.
8
Robert M. Parker, Jr.
I'm a common-sense kind of guy.
9
Mike Ross
While I have worked hard to bring folks to the middle to craft common-sense solutions to the many problems that confront our nation, Washington is mired in gridlock, gamesmanship and constant partisan bickering.
10
Jimmy Smits
There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared; never give up; and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMMON-SENSE»

Discover the use of common-sense in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to common-sense and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to ...
That’s what index investing is all about. And that’s what this book is all about. Praise for The Little Book of Common Sense Investing "A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the greatmajority of investors.
John C. Bogle, 2010
2
Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an ...
And now, Glenn Beck revisits Paine’s powerful treatise with one purpose: to galvanize Americans to see past government’s easy solutions, two-party monopoly, and illogical methods and take back our great country.
Glenn Beck, 2009
3
The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America
The current system is broken. Law is supposed to be a framework for humans to make choices, not the replacement for free choice.” So notes Philip K. Howard in the new Afterword to his explosive manifesto The Death of Common Sense.
Philip K. Howard, 2011
4
Arthritis and Common Sense
The author reports the results of his research into the cause of arthritis and offers a dietary plan complete with menus designed to relieve the disease's symptoms
Dale Alexander, 1981
5
Common Sense
Common Sense reveals a political ideal so fundamental to American politics that we are unaware of its power and its myriad uses.
Sophia A. Rosenfeld, 2011
6
Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About ...
This new edition of a classic, with reflections on the recent recession and the policy response to it, illuminates our world and what might be done to make it better.
James D. Gwartney, Richard L. Stroup, Dwight R. Lee, 2010
7
Common Sense on Mutual Funds
This new edition of Common Sense on Mutual Funds will send you marching into the financial markets with a sense of mission." —Jonathan Clements, author of The Little Book of Main Street Money "When the history of modern investment ...
John C. Bogle, 2010
8
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
-- Surviving executive design whims "I thought usability was the enemy of design until I read the first edition of this book. Don't Make Me Think! showed me how to put myself in the position of the person who uses my site.
Steve Krug, 2009
9
A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the ...
But this much is certain: it was a devastating blow to America’s—and the world’s—financial system. And it need not have happened. This is the story of why it did. From the Hardcover edition.
Lawrence G. McDonald, Patrick Robinson, 2010
10
Genius of Common Sense: Jane Jacobs and the Story of The ...
Presents the life and accomplishments of Jane Jacobs, focusing on her groundbreaking book, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities," which changed the face of urban planning and sociology.
Glenna Lang, Marjory Wunsch, 2009

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMMON-SENSE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term common-sense is used in the context of the following news items.
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Protect your credit cards from fraud with these common-sense
As Canadians head out for their holidays this summer, they're going to be reaching for their credit card to pay their way and experts want them ... «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»
2
Time for common-sense gun control
It's a shame that it takes senseless shooting tragedies to reiterate the importance of putting common-sense checks and balances for legislating ... «Detroit Free Press, Jun 15»

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