Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Showing results for apprehensible. Search instead for apprehensibly.
Synonyms

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

  • apprehensibility noun
  • apprehensibly adverb
  • nonapprehensibility noun
  • nonapprehensible adjective
  • unapprehensible adjective

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

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

Does the object cognitively apprehensible arise from an entity or not?

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava

Peter, preaching of the faith, continually apprehensible through the papal definitions of faith, gives to the faith of the Church the specific form under which the same incorporates itself historically in an ecclesiastical confession.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.