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comprehensible

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com·pre·hen·si·ble  (kmpr-hns-bl)
adj.
Readily comprehended or understood; intelligible.
[Latin comprehnsibilis, from comprehnsus, past participle of comprehendere, to comprehend; see comprehend.]
compre·hensi·bili·ty n.
compre·hensi·bly adv.
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Adj.1.comprehensible - capable of being comprehended or understood; "an idea comprehensible to the average mind"
comprehendible
clear - readily apparent to the mind; "a clear and present danger"; "a clear explanation"; "a clear case of murder"; "a clear indication that she was angry"; "gave us a clear idea of human nature"
explicable - capable of being explicated or accounted for; "explicable behavior"
intelligible - well articulated or enunciated, and loud enough to be heard distinctly; "intelligible pronunciation"
uncomprehensible, incomprehensible - difficult to understand; "the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible"- A. Einstein
comprehensible
adjective understandable, clear, plain, explicit, coherent, user-friendly, intelligible
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In the second category Pierre reckoned himself and others like him, seeking and vacillating, who had not yet found in Freemasonry a straight and comprehensible path, but hoped to do so.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
In spite of the magnificent harvest, never had there been, or, at least, never it seemed to him, had there been so many hindrances and so many quarrels between him and the peasants as that year, and the origin of these failures and this hostility was now perfectly comprehensible to him.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
He thought nothing of what was plain and comprehensible.
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