mother wit

Questions about mother wit

What does mother wit mean?

mother wit means "sound practical judgment".

What is another word for mother wit?

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

mother wit 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.