English Dictionary

make sense

動詞

慣用表現 自動詞 of 構文 くだけた表現 俗語

(intransitive, idiomatic) To be sensible, coherent, reasonable. / (intransitive, idiomatic, with of) To decipher or understand.

日本語の意味

意味が通じる / 筋が通っている / 合理的である / 理解できる / 納得がいく

If you explain the plan more clearly, the proposal will make sense to everyone.

計画をもっと明確に説明すれば、その提案は皆にとって納得できるでしょう。

意味（1）

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

The thing doesn’t make sense to me.

意味（2）

(intransitive, idiomatic, with of) To decipher or understand.

Can you make sense of her handwriting?

意味（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.

意味（4）

(generally negated, bodybuilding slang) 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.

makes sense （ present singular third-person ）

making sense （ participle present ）

made sense （ participle past ）

made sense （ past ）