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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.

comprehensible [ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnsəbəl]
adj
capable of being comprehended
comprehensibility , comprehensibleness n
comprehensibly  adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.comprehensible - capable of being comprehended or understood; "an idea comprehensible to the average mind"
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, graspable He spoke abruptly, in barely comprehensible Arabic.
Translations
comprehensible [ˌkɒmprɪˈhensəbl] ADJcomprensible
comprehensible [ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnsɪbəl] adj (= understandable) → compréhensible
comprehensible
adjverständlich; the graffiti is not comprehensibledas Graffito ist nicht verständlich or zu verstehen
comprehensible [ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnsəbl] adjcomprensibile
comprehensible [ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnsəbl] adjcomprensibile


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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.
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.
He thought nothing of what was plain and comprehensible.
 
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