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apprehensible

American  
[ap-ri-hen-suh-buhl] / ˌæp rɪˈhɛn sə bəl /

adjective

  1. capable of being understood.


apprehensible British  
/ ˌæprɪˈhɛnsɪbəl /

adjective

  1. capable of being comprehended or grasped mentally

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Etymology

Origin of apprehensible

1625–35; < Late Latin apprehēnsibilis < Latin apprehēns ( us ) grasped (past participle of apprehendere ), equivalent to apprehend- ( see apprehend) + -t ( us ) past participle suffix + -ibilis -ible

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CNN, like all televised media, specializes in nearsighted news, favoring big, easily apprehensible images and storylines.

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2015

One of the best parts of “Ghettoside” is a wonderfully apprehensible crash course in legal anthropology.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2015

What he craved was neither luxury nor the high rhetoric of history painting, but apprehensible truth, visible, familiar, open to touch and repetition.

From Time Magazine Archive

The beauty of it is not always apprehensible.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus

In order to produce a strong effect on memory the advertisement must be easily apprehensible.

From Psychology and Industrial Efficiency by Hugo Münsterberg

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