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comprehensible
[ kom-pri-hen-suh-buhl ]
comprehensible
/ ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnsəbəl /
adjective
- capable of being comprehended
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Derived Forms
- ˌcompreˈhensibly, adverb
- ˌcompreˌhensiˈbility, noun
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Other Words From
- compre·hensi·bili·ty compre·hensi·ble·ness noun
- compre·hensi·bly adverb
- inter·compre·hensi·bili·ty noun
- noncom·pre·hendi·ble adjective
- noncom·pre·hensi·ble adjective
- noncom·pre·hensi·ble·ly adverb
- uncom·pre·hensi·ble adjective
- uncom·pre·hensi·ble·ness noun
- uncom·pre·hensi·bly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of comprehensible1
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Example Sentences
If nothing else, this comprehensive and comprehensible idea could move our leaders past the present paralysis.
But they're comprehensible, and that comprehensibility is surprisingly comforting.
Most crimes are motivated by unlovely impulses that are at least comprehensible: the desire for money, sex, respect, revenge.
Ghesquière is a resolutely modern designer whose work is both comprehensible and challenging.
Also, of course, George made his money in a straightforward and comprehensible way.
Mitt needs a simpler, more down-to-earth blueprint with catchy and comprehensible elements—something like his own 9-9-9 plan.
And I think the only thing we can do is try to make it comprehensible.
Still, the pedigree of the filmmakers makes this movie's inclusion at least comprehensible.
Now there is a cause for this, as there is no effect without a cause, a comprehensible remediable cause.
This attitude of the scientific world toward these problematical occurrences is quite comprehensible.
If religion was comprehensible, priests would not have so many charges here below.
To even such genuine modesty as Jim-Ed's this was comprehensible.
This historical inquiry was neither comprehensible nor interesting.
But this attitude was not very comprehensible to her present companion.
All this makes the slackening of vigor toward the end of a long novel comprehensible.
That the man who enjoys none of the good things of life should wish to snatch his share must at least appear comprehensible.
What is not comprehensible is that he should wish to renounce all hope of ever possessing anything.
Had Petrarch been an ecclesiastic, it might be comprehensible; but he was the first man of the modern world.
For me the comprehensible world was but this speck of wood, swinging between water and sky.
Selina delivered it, uttering 'obey' in a demurely comical way, as a word of which the humour might be comprehensible to him.
It was as the son of a yeoman, showing comprehensible accomplishments, that Robert took his lead.
The Turk oppressed him, but did so in an Oriental, and hence more or less comprehensible, manner.
I will set it forth, in a way a little different from his, in order to make the conclusion more comprehensible.
And by that light the fragments of this pathetic race become more comprehensible, and, perhaps, less pathetic.
A man sets up two slim masts a thousand miles apart and flashes comprehensible messages across the void.
Verily the delinquencies of so delectable a piece of womanhood were easily comprehensible!
Its content was not comprehensible to Telzey at all, but in some unmistakable manner it was defined as Tick-Tock's thought.
Even Dick Garstin was quite comprehensible, in spite of his extraordinary manners and almost violent originality.
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