gumptious

1. 1.

   working hard to promote an enterprise

   Synonymsenergeticindustriousup-and-coming

   Similarenterprising

Questions about gumptious

What does gumptious mean?

gumptious means "working hard to promote an enterprise".

How many syllables are in gumptious?

gumptious has 3 syllables: gump-ti-ous. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for gumptious?

Close synonyms include energetic, industrious, up-and-coming. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gumptious a common word?

gumptious is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.