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commonsensical

commonsensical adjective: displaying common sense.

Adjective

commonsensical (comparative more commonsensical, superlative most commonsensical)

  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
    • 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
    Antonyms:
    nonsensical

Antonyms of commonsensical

Forms of commonsensical

comparativemore commonsensical
superlativemost commonsensical
alternative formcommon-sensical

Origin of commonsensical

From common sense + -ical.

Words formed from commonsensical

Questions about commonsensical

What does commonsensical mean?
Commonsensical means displaying common sense.
What part of speech is commonsensical?
Commonsensical is an adjective.

Words near commonsensical in the dictionary

  1. commons
  2. Commons House
  3. commonsense
  4. commonsensible
  5. commonsensibly
  6. commonsensical
  7. commonsensically
  8. commonship
  9. commonships
  10. commonty
  11. commonweal

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