make sense

Verb

make sense (third-person singular simple present makes sense, present participle making sense, simple past and past participle made sense)

1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To be sensible, coherent, reasonable.
   • 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.

   Synonyms:

   add up, figure, track, check out

2. (idiomatic, intransitive, with-of) To decipher or understand.
   • Can you make sense of her handwriting?

   Synonyms:

   make head or tail of

3. (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.
4. (slang, generally negated) To be in the realm of the ordinary, to be not particularly developed.
   • If you want to grow spinal erectors that don’t make sense, you have to do a lot of bent-over compound lifts.

   Antonyms:

   ridiculous, absurd