GOOD SENSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does good sense mean? 

• GOOD SENSE (noun)
  The noun GOOD SENSE has 1 sense:

1. sound practical judgment

  Familiarity information: GOOD SENSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOD SENSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sound practical judgment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

common sense; good sense; gumption; horse sense; mother wit; sense

Context example:

fortunately she had the good sense to run away

Hypernyms ("good sense" is a kind of...):

discernment; judgement; judgment; sagaciousness; sagacity (the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "good sense"):

logic (reasoned and reasonable judgment)

nous (common sense)

road sense (good judgment in avoiding trouble or accidents on the road)

 Context examples 

His good sense and good principles would delight you.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Inspector Martin had the good sense to allow my friend to do things in his own fashion, and contented himself with carefully noting the results.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took next.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without wishing to return it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

His pleasing manners and good sense were self-evident recommendations; and having never heard evil of him, it was not their way to suppose any evil could be told.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Amy is my chief care now, but her good sense will help her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Some of the latter had already been to see me, and reported strange things of my beauty, behaviour, and good sense.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

With his notions of dignity, he would probably feel that the arguments, which to Elizabeth had appeared weak and ridiculous, contained much good sense and solid reasoning.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

And I cannot help avowing that this was the first occasion on which I really did justice to the clear head, and the plain, patient, practical good sense, of my old schoolfellow.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Anne found in Mrs Smith the good sense and agreeable manners which she had almost ventured to depend on, and a disposition to converse and be cheerful beyond her expectation.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)