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comprehensible

[ kom-pri-hen-suh-buh l ]
/ ˌkɒm prɪˈhɛn sə bəl /

adjective

capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.

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Words nearby comprehensible

compound time, compound-complex sentence, compound-wound, comprador, comprehend, comprehensible, comprehension, comprehensive, comprehensive school, compress, compressed
Also com·pre·hend·i·ble [kom-pri-hen-duh-buh l] /ˌkɒm prɪˈhɛn də bəl/.

Origin of comprehensible

From the Latin word comprehēnsibilis, dating back to 1520–30. See comprehension, -ible

OTHER WORDS FROM comprehensible

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH comprehensible

comprehensible comprehensive
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Examples from the Web for comprehensibly

  • Through an Incarnation alone can the purposes of Zeus in creation be fully and comprehensibly revealed to man.

    Browning and Dogma|Ethel M. Naish

  • Mr. Durance despised them: he called them, arguing against Mr. Radnor, 'those emotional things,' not comprehensibly to Skepsey.

    One of Our Conquerors, Complete|George Meredith

British Dictionary definitions for comprehensibly

comprehensible
/ (ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnsəbəl) /

adjective

capable of being comprehended

Derived forms of comprehensible

comprehensibility or comprehensibleness, nouncomprehensibly, adverb
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