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making sense

ADJECTIVE

reasonable

Synonyms

STRONGEST

acceptable cheap equitable fair feasible honest humane impartial judicious justifiable legitimate modest objective plausible proper prudent rational restrained sane sensible understandable valid

WEAK

analytical average circumspect conservative controlled discreet fit inexpensive just knowing legit low-cost low-priced okay politic reflective right sapient sound standing to reason temperate unexcessive unextreme within reason

Antonyms

STRONGEST

assured biased bold invalid irrational partial prejudiced senseless unacceptable unfair unjust unlikely unrealistic unreasonable unsound unwarranted unwise

WEAK

expensive implausible impractical intolerable nonsensical outrageous stupid

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But they were also about to prove that they were already better than most humans at making sense of a tournament known for being completely insane.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Then she became delirious, became "really sensitive to light", and stopped making sense, she said.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

The movie is me making sense of that mystery and beauty while also understanding that I have asthma because of them.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2026

"Religion may provide some way of making sense of the world, some sense of identity in relation to others, that can't easily be replaced by other forms of socialization," Oostrom said.

From Science Daily • Dec. 20, 2025

It is at the zero hour of the big bang and the ground zero of the black hole that the mathematical equations that describe our world stop making sense.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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