make sense

verb

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • I was in your arms Thinking I belonged there I figured it made sense Building me a fence
  2. To decipher or understand.

    • Can you make sense of her handwriting?
  3. Used to express interest or desire in something

    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. + 1 more definition
    1. 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.

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