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/ˌkɑmənˈsɛnsɪkəɫ/
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ADJECTIVE
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exhibiting native good judgment
arrive home at a reasonable hour
unlearned and commonsensical countryfolk were capable of solving problems that beset the more sophisticated
commonsense scholarship on the foibles of a genius
How To Use commonsensical In A Sentence
- They now offer their cautious, limited, and commonsensical assistance to fully autonomous clients.
- These changes are practical and commonsensical and I hope they will prevent cases of serious error.
- It makes sense that they might have encountered each other, but I just -- this doesn't -- the testimony today doesn't make a lot of sense from a kind of commonsensical point of view. CNN Transcript Mar 27, 2006
- My experience of Utopia has convinced me that in taking thought for the education of the young it is impossible to be too idealistic, and that the more "commonsensical" and "utilitarian" one's philosophy of education, the shallower and falser it will prove to be. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular
- The real opposite of the sublime is, of course, the intransigently banal and commonsensical.
- In my research, I will argue that utilitarianism, contrary to its critics' (mis)conception, has theoretical resources to take full account of commonsensical moral rules.
- It is of course commonsensical to film all three at one go - gathering together the cast for separate shoots would be impractical.
- Now she was perfectly sensible and commonsensical.
- And we all ought to go about our business in a commonsensical, calm way, and not in any way be distracted by scare stories or horror stories or headlines.
- Its punch lies in its ironical, teasing, sceptical commonsensical way of subverting tenaciously held fallacies. The Times Literary Supplement