All gumption synonyms

noun gumption

• shrewdness — astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.
• resourcefulness — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
• acumen — keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a situation; shrewdness
• savvy — experienced, knowledgable, and well-informed; shrewd (often used in combination): consumers who are savvy about prices; a tech-savvy entrepreneur.
• cleverness — mentally bright; having sharp or quick intelligence; able.
• astuteness — of keen penetration or discernment; sagacious: an astute analysis.
• get-up-and-go — energy, drive, and enthusiasm.
• ability — Your ability to do something is the fact that you can do it.
• industry — the aggregate of manufacturing or technically productive enterprises in a particular field, often named after its principal product: the automobile industry; the steel industry.
• sagacious — having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd: a sagacious lawyer.
• discernment — the faculty of discerning; discrimination; acuteness of judgment and understanding.
• sagacity — acuteness of mental discernment and soundness of judgment.
• wit — the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee.
• sense — any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body: My sense of smell tells me that dinner is ready.
• perspicacity — keenness of mental perception and understanding; discernment; penetration.
• wisdom — the quality or state of being wise; knowledge of what is true or right coupled with just judgment as to action; sagacity, discernment, or insight.
• judgment — an act or instance of judging.
• spirit — the principle of conscious life; the vital principle in humans, animating the body or mediating between body and soul.
• perspicaciousness — having keen mental perception and understanding; discerning: to exhibit perspicacious judgment.
• common sense — Your common sense is your natural ability to make good judgments and to behave in a practical and sensible way.
• practicality — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
• presence of mind — a calm state of mind that allows one to think clearly or act effectively in an emergency.
• initiative — an introductory act or step; leading action: to take the initiative in making friends.
• nous — Greek Philosophy. mind or intellect.
• nerve — one or more bundles of fibers forming part of a system that conveys impulses of sensation, motion, etc., between the brain or spinal cord and other parts of the body.
• enterprise — A project or undertaking, typically one that is difficult or requires effort.
• courage — Courage is the quality shown by someone who decides to do something difficult or dangerous, even though they may be afraid.
• guts — the alimentary canal, especially between the pylorus and the anus, or some portion of it. Compare foregut, midgut, hindgut.
• bravery — Bravery is brave behaviour or the quality of being brave.
• mettle — courage and fortitude: a man of mettle.
• pluck — to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken.
• moxie — vigor; verve; pep.
• horse sense — common sense.
• commonsense — sound practical judgment that is independent of specialized knowledge, training, or the like; normal native intelligence.