make sense
Be logically sound
To make sense is to be understandable or logical: That explanation doesn't make sense.
It can also mean to be a reasonable course of action: It makes sense to wait until prices drop.
The phrase often appears in questions confirming comprehension: Does that make sense?
- clickBrief sharp noise
- reasonableShowing sound judgment
- hold waterBe logically defensible
- ring trueSeem authentic or credible
- comprehensibleAble to be understood
clear · become clear · coherent · plausible · check out · logical · intelligible · lucid · compute · hang together · come together · dawn · fit · rational · twig · fall into place · see the light · understand
- understandingunderstand, comprehend, grasp, fathom, follow
- Thinking phrasesI think, I believe, in my opinion, I wonder, I suppose