commonsensical

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adjective

Displaying common sense.

Opposite
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Meanings

adjectivecommonsensical (comparative more commonsensical, superlative most commonsensical)

comparative more commonsensical · superlative most commonsensical · alternative common-sensical

  1. Displaying common sense.

    Washington devised an eminently commonsensical plan for attacking British outposts at Germantown.

    1973, Samuel Redsecker II Slaymaker, Captives' Mansion: An American Family Chronicle Covering Nine Generations and Two Hundred Years in a Pennsylvania Rural Manor, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 39
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    All the bowing and scraping was enough to make a cat laugh, but the Princess took it all in her stride — her demeanour commonsensical (didn't everyone who went by train get this sort of treatment?) and a shade demure.

    2013, Robert Barnard, Death and the Princess

    And that is precisely the point—frames have the power to obscure the bigger picture, to narrowly and misleadingly define the problem, and to make imaginable only certain solutions. The commonsensical frames of fear, values, standards, and competition make it easy to overlook the deeper problems and to place all blame on teachres.

    2015, Kevin K. Kumashiro, Bad Teacher! How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture, page 43

    Antonyms: nonsensical

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveDisplaying common sense.

Opposite

More synonyms by meaning

adjectiveexhibiting native good judgment

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Englishcommon sense
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  4. Englishcommonsensical

From common sense + -ical.

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Translations

Polish zdroworozsądkowy
  • zdroworozsądkowywithout sense
Cite this entry
APA

commonsensical. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/commonsensical

MLA

“commonsensical.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/commonsensical. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “commonsensical,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/commonsensical.

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