Usually means: Resourcefulness and initiative; spirited courage.
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  1. gumption: Merriam-Webster
  2. gumption: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gumption: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gumption: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gumption: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gumption, gumption: Wordnik
  7. gumption: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gumption: Wiktionary
  9. gumption: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gumption: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gumption: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gumption, gumption: Dictionary.com
  13. gumption: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gumption: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gumption: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gumption: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gumption: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gumption: Rhymezone
  19. Gumption: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gumption: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. GUMPTION: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Gumption: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. gumption: FreeDictionary.org
  24. gumption: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. gumption: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. gumption: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. gumption: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. gumption: Encyclopedia

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  1. GUMPTION: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gumption: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. gumption: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gumption)

▸ noun:  (UK, Ireland) Common sense, initiative, resourcefulness.
▸ noun:  (US) Boldness of enterprise; aggressiveness or initiative.
▸ noun:  (US) Energy of body and mind, enthusiasm.

Similar:
horse sense, common sense, good sense, sense, mother wit, guts, grit, sand, backbone, gumph, more...

Opposite:
apathy, indifference, lethargy

Phrases:
gumption trap, has the gumption, had the gumption, to do something with gumption, have the gumption, more...

Adjectives:
enough, much, little, ordinary, sufficient, real, plain, sheer, natural, legal, moral

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Similar:
horse sense, common sense, good sense, sense, mother wit, guts, grit, sand, backbone, gumph, more...

Opposite:
apathy, indifference, lethargy

Phrases:
gumption trap, has the gumption, had the gumption, to do something with gumption, have the gumption, full of gumption, more...

Adjectives:
enough, much, little, ordinary, sufficient, real, plain, sheer, natural, legal, moral

Colors:
    burnt orange,     mustard yellow,     forest green,     cobalt blue,     olive green, more...



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