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make sense

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make sense (third-person singular simple presentmakes sense,present participlemaking sense,simple past and past participlemade sense)

(intransitive, idiomatic) To besensible,coherent,reasonable.
Synonym:add up
The thing doesn’tmake sense to me.
Somehow the combination didn’tmake sense, but Cranston took it at face value, whatever that was worth.
- 1980,ABBA, “The Winner Takes It All”:
  I was in your arms
  Thinking I belonged there
  I figured itmade sense
  Building me a fence
- 2002, Frou Frou, “Psychobabble”, inDetails‎^[1]:
  Of course you're not coming over / Snap out of it / You're notmaking anysense
- 2025 February 19, Paul Clifton, “I am absolutely committed to reforming the railway”, inRAIL, number1029, page41:
  Hendy has come out as something of an evangelist for discontinuous electrification. For Waterloo-Exeter, this couldmake realsense on a route where the high capital cost of wiring orthird rail all the way to Devon would be prohibitive. But what about his vocal support for it on East West Rail, which is effectively a brand new line?
(intransitive, idiomatic, withof) Todecipher orunderstand.
Synonym:make head or tail of
Can youmake sense of her handwriting?
(informal)Used to express interest or desire in something; to be pleasing or beneficial; towork, beoperative, or beadvantageous to.
Maybe we should take a break. I mean, our relationship just isn'tmaking muchsense anymore.
(generally negated, bodybuilding slang) To be in therealm of theordinary, to be notparticularly developed.
Antonyms:ridiculous,absurd;see alsoThesaurus:strapping
If you want to grow spinal erectors thatdon’t make sense, you have to do a lot of bent-over compound lifts.