sense
n
1 faculty, feeling, sensation, sensibility
2 appreciation, atmosphere, aura, awareness, consciousness, feel, impression, intuition, perception, premonition, presentiment, sentiment
3 definition, denotation, drift, gist, implication, import, interpretation, meaning, message, nuance, purport, significance, signification, substance
4 (sometimes plural)
brains (informal) clear-headedness, cleverness, common sense, discernment, discrimination, gumption (Brit. informal) intelligence, judgment, mother wit, nous (Brit. slang) quickness, reason, sagacity, sanity, sharpness, smarts (slang, chiefly U.S.) tact, understanding, wisdom, wit(s)
5 advantage, good, logic, point, purpose, reason, use, value, worth
vb
6 appreciate, apprehend, be aware of, discern, divine, feel, get the impression, grasp, have a feeling in one's bones (informal) have a funny feeling (informal) have a hunch, just know, notice, observe, perceive, pick up, realize, suspect, understand
Antonyms
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4 bêtise (rare) folly, foolishness, idiocy, nonsense, silliness, stupidity vb be unaware of, fail to grasp or notice, miss, misunderstand, overlook
common-sense , common-sensical
adj astute, down-to-earth, hard-headed, judicious, level-headed, matter-of-fact, practical, realistic, reasonable, sane, sensible, shrewd, sound
Antonyms
airy-fairy (informal) daft (informal) foolish, impractical, irrational, unrealistic, unreasonable, unthinking, unwise
common sense
good sense, gumption (Brit. informal) horse sense, level-headedness, mother wit, native intelligence, nous (Brit. slang) practicality, prudence, reasonableness, smarts (slang, chiefly U.S.) sound judgment, soundness, wit
horse sense
common sense, gumption (Brit. informal) judgment, mother wit, nous (Brit. slang) practicality
sixth sense
clairvoyance, feyness, intuition, second sight