English Explanatory Dictionary

make sense

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To be sensible, coherent, reasonable.
  2. To decipher or understand.
  3. Used to express interest or desire in something; to be pleasing or beneficial; to work, be operative, or be advantageous to.
  4. To be in the realm of the ordinary, to be not particularly developed.

Pronunciation

en-au-make sense.ogg en-us-make sense.ogg

Word forms

make sense makes sense making sense made sense

Synonyms

add up make head or tail of

Antonyms

ridiculous absurd
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