horse sense

Questions about horse sense

What does horse sense mean?

horse sense means "sound practical judgment".

What is another word for horse sense?

Close synonyms include common sense, good sense, gumption, sense, mother wit. 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 horse sense a common word?

horse sense 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.