Savvy vs Commonsense - What's the difference?
savvy | commonsense |
(informal) Shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
(informal) to understand
(informal) Do you understand?
Shrewdness
As adjectives the difference between savvy and commonsense
is that savvy is (informal) shrewd, well-informed and perceptive while commonsense is exhibiting or using common sense.As a verb savvy
is (informal) to understand.As an interjection savvy
is (informal) do you understand?.As a noun savvy
is shrewdness.savvy
English
Adjective
(er)- That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.