English-Thai Dictionary

gumption

N การ ริเริ่ม (คำ ไม่เป็นทางการ  การ รุก  enterprise initiation kan-ri-roem

 

gumption

N ความกล้าหาญ  ความ ใจแข็ง  ความ อาจหาญ  courage boldness kwam-kla-han

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GUMPTION

n.Care; skill; understanding. [Vulgar. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

GUMPTION

Gump "tion, n. Etym: [OE. gom, gome, attention; akin to AS. geómian,gyman, to regard, observe, gyme care, OS. gomean to heed, Goth. gaumjan to see, notice. ]

 

1. Capacity; shrewdness; common sense. [Colloq. ] One does not have gumption till one has been properly cheated. Lord Lytton.

 

2. (Paint. ) (a ) The art of preparing colors. Sir W. Scott. (b ) Megilp. Fairholt.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

gumption

gump tion |ˈgəmpSHən ˈɡəm (p )ʃən | ▶noun informal shrewd or spirited initiative and resourcefulness: she had the gumption to put her foot down and head Dan off from those crazy schemes. ORIGIN early 18th cent. (originally Scots ): of unknown origin.

 

Oxford Dictionary

gumption

gumption |ˈgʌm (p )ʃ (ə )n | ▶noun [ mass noun ] informal shrewd or spirited initiative and resourcefulness: the president would hire almost any young man who had the gumption to ask for a job. ORIGIN early 18th cent. (originally Scots ): of unknown origin.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

gumption

gumption noun informal we never thought Clarence would have the gumption to stand up to the committee —and actually get what he wanted: initiative, resourcefulness, enterprise, ingenuity, imagination; astuteness, shrewdness, acumen, sense, common sense, wit, mother wit, practicality; spirit, backbone, pluck, mettle, nerve, courage, wherewithal; informal get-up-and-go, spunk, oomph, moxie, savvy, horse sense, (street ) smarts.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

gumption

gumption noun informal she had the gumption to go and make a better life for herself: initiative, resourcefulness, enterprise, imagination, imaginativeness, ingenuity, inventiveness; cleverness, astuteness, shrewdness, acumen, discernment, understanding, reason, wisdom, sagacity, sense, common sense, wit, mother wit, native wit, native ability, practicality; spirit, forcefulness, backbone, pluck, mettle, nerve, courage; informal get-up-and-go, grit, spunk, oomph, nous, savvy, horse sense; Brit. informal loaf, common; N. Amer. informal smarts. ANTONYMS stupidity.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

gumption

gump tion /ɡʌ́m (p )ʃ (ə )n /名詞 U ｟くだけて ｠1 進取の気性, 積極性 .2 常識, 分別 ; 才覚 ▸ business gumption 商才