apprehensible

[ ap-ri-hen-suh-buh l ]

/ ˌæp rɪˈhɛn sə bəl /

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adjective

capable of being understood.

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

OTHER WORDS FROM apprehensible

ap·pre·hen·si·bil·i·ty, noun ap·pre·hen·si·bly, adverb non·ap·pre·hen·si·bil·i·ty, noun non·ap·pre·hen·si·ble, adjective

un·ap·pre·hen·si·ble, adjective

Words nearby apprehensible

appreciate, appreciation, appreciative, appreciatory, apprehend, apprehensible, apprehension, apprehensive, apprentice, appressed, appressorium

Example sentences from the Web for apprehensible

After all, a synthesis is what you want: it is the case you have to judge brought to an apprehensible issue for you.

Preface to Androcles and the Lion |George Bernard Shaw
He was beyond that state in which any difference was apprehensible between one thing and another.

Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2) |F. Marion Crawford
Do we ever apprehend objects by the light of God without apprehending the light which renders them apprehensible?

Fundamental Philosophy, Vol. I (of 2) |Jaime Luciano Balmes
Indeed in some cases the sense of the passage is not apprehensible.

Concord Days |A. Bronson Alcott

Let us retrace, but in such a form as to be apprehensible by all readers.

The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 (2 vols) |Thomas De Quincey

British Dictionary definitions for apprehensible

apprehensible

/ (ˌæprɪˈhɛnsɪbəl) /

adjective

capable of being comprehended or grasped mentally

Derived forms of apprehensible

apprehensibility, noun apprehensibly, adverb

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