Русский | Английский |
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смысл noun {m} | gist [gists](the most essential part) meaning [meanings](significance of a thing, as "the meaning of life") point [points](purpose or objective) sense [senses](meaning or reason) significance [significances](meaning) |
смысл жизни noun {m} | meaning of life(hypothetical answer to life’s ultimate questions) |
смысл существования noun {m} | raison d'être(reason for being) |
смыслящий adjective | savvy [savvier, savviest](well-informed and perceptive) |
а он уже смыслит phrase | a nod is as good as a wink(the hint, suggestion etc can be understood without further explaining) |
бессмысленно adverb | meaninglessly(in a meaningless manner) |
бессмысленность noun {f} | pointlessness(lack of purpose) senselessness(being senseless) |
бессмысленный adjective | brute(of humans: senseless, unreasoning) confused(making no sense; illogical) dumb [dumber, dumbest](pointless or unintellectual) fatuous(obnoxiously stupid, vacantly silly, content in one's foolishness) inane(lacking sense or meaning) insensate(senseless; foolish; irrational) meaningless(lacking meaning) mindless(having no sensible meaning or purpose) nonsensical(without sense) pointless(having no prominent or important feature) senseless(lacking meaning or purpose) vacant(showing no intelligence or interest) vacuous(lacking meaningful content) |
бессмыслица noun {f} | balderdash(nonsense) drivel(senseless talk) gibberish(needlessly obscure or overly technical language) nonsense(meaningless words) |
в каком-то смысле preposition | of sorts(Resembling; similar to; in a way; partial or not entire; somewhat) |
в переносном смысле adverb | idiomatically(in an idiomatic manner) |
в смысле phrase | what do you mean(what do you mean? (request for clarification)) |
двусмысленно adverb | ambiguously(in an ambiguous manner) |
двусмысленность noun {f} | ambiguity [ambiguities](something liable to more than one interpretation) double entendre(phrase with two meanings) |
двусмысленный adjective | ambiguous(open to multiple interpretations) equivocal(having several applicable significations) inexact(imprecisely or indefinitely conceived or stated) oracular(ambiguous, hard to interpret) |
здравый смысл noun {m} | common sense(ordinary understanding) |