make nothing of

English

Verb

make nothing of (third-person singular simple present makes nothing of, present participle making nothing of, simple past and past participle made nothing of)

1. To make no difficulty of (a given occurrence); to consider (a particular occurrence) as trifling or unimportant.
   • 1691, John Ray, Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of His Creation:

     We are industrious to preserve our bodies from slavery, but we make nothing of suffering our souls to be slaves to our lusts.

2. To fail to understand.

   I could make nothing of what he said.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “make nothing of”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)