make sense
English
Pronunciation
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Verb
make sense (third-person singular simple present makes sense, present participle making sense, simple past and past participle made sense)
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To be sensible, coherent, reasonable.
- Synonym: add up
- The thing doesn’t make sense to me.
- Somehow the combination didn’t make sense, but Cranston took it at face value, whatever that was worth.
- 1980, ABBA (lyrics and music), “The Winner Takes It All”:
- I was in your arms
Thinking I belonged there
I figured it made sense
Building me a fence
- (intransitive, idiomatic, with of) To decipher or understand.
- Synonym: make head or tail of
- Can you make sense of her handwriting?
- (informal) Used to express interest or desire in something; to be pleasing or beneficial; to work, be operative, or be advantageous to.
- Maybe we should take a break. I mean, our relationship just isn't making much sense anymore.
- (generally negated, bodybuilding slang) To be in the realm of the ordinary, to be not particularly developed.
- Antonyms: ridiculous, absurd; see also Thesaurus:strapping
- If you want to grow spinal erectors that don’t make sense, you have to do a lot of bent-over compound lifts.
Descendants
- → Icelandic: meika sens
- → Swedish: mejka sense
Translations
be coherent
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decipher, understand
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