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gumptious
adjective as in enterprising
Weak matches
adjective as in go ahead
Example Sentences
TIJUANA, Mexico — The North American Free Trade Agreement has transformed this sprawling and gumptious border town from a gritty party spot to something entirely different: a world capital of medical devices.
It seems inconceivable that a similar strategy will deny Germany, though in Marek Hamsik, they at least have a player capable of gumptious transcendence.
The products of heavy metal, collapsed family structures and inertia, they’re mischievous and susceptible, and not gumptious enough for real misbehavior.
Gumption is knowing; but when I say that sum un is gumptious, I mean—though that's more vulgar like—sum un who does not think small beer of hisself.
But in 1540 it was recognized that "to enterprise the whole extirpation and total destruction of all the Irishmen in the land would be a marvellous gumptious charge and great difficulty."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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