comprehensible

[ kom-pri-hen-suh-buh l ]

/ ˌkɒm prɪˈhɛn sə bəl /

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adjective

capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.

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

com·pre·hen·si·bil·i·ty, com·pre·hen·si·ble·ness, noun com·pre·hen·si·bly, adverb in·ter·com·pre·hen·si·bil·i·ty, noun non·com·pre·hend·i·ble, adjective

non·com·pre·hen·si·ble, adjective non·com·pre·hen·si·ble·ly, adverb un·com·pre·hen·si·ble, adjective un·com·pre·hen·si·ble·ness, noun un·com·pre·hen·si·bly, adverb

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH comprehensible

comprehensible comprehensive

Words nearby comprehensible

compound time, compound-complex sentence, compound-wound, comprador, comprehend, comprehensible, comprehension, comprehensive, comprehensive school, compress, compressed

Example sentences from the Web for comprehensible

If nothing else, this comprehensive and comprehensible idea could move our leaders past the present paralysis.

The 2 Cent Budget Fix |Michael Medved |January 19, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
But they're comprehensible, and that comprehensibility is surprisingly comforting.

There's Little We Can Do to Prevent Another Massacre |Megan McArdle |December 17, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Most crimes are motivated by unlovely impulses that are at least comprehensible: the desire for money, sex, respect, revenge.

There's Little We Can Do to Prevent Another Massacre |Megan McArdle |December 17, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Also, of course, George made his money in a straightforward and comprehensible way.

The Apple That Fell Far From the Tree |Michael Tomasky |July 9, 2012 |DAILY BEAST

Mitt needs a simpler, more down-to-earth blueprint with catchy and comprehensible elements—something like his own 9-9-9 plan.

Mitt Romney Should Learn a Lesson from Teddy Kennedy |Michael Medved |February 3, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
He set up a new authority against an old authority; but He set it up with positive commandments and a comprehensible scheme.

Eugenics and Other Evils |G. K. Chesterton
But to his friends his mastery of the English tongue in such circumstances is comprehensible.

The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol |William J. Locke
The appeal was comprehensible, and the charioteer, assiduously obliging, fell to posture of checking none too volant steeds.

The So-called Human Race |Bert Leston Taylor
He was very fond of the Leyburn girls, but music seemed to him, good man, one of the least comprehensible of human pleasures.

Robert Elsmere |Mrs. Humphry Ward
In this way he explained various laws, and rendered them comprehensible, when they seemed obscure or in any way extraordinary.

History of the Jews, Vol. II (of 6) |Heinrich Graetz

British Dictionary definitions for comprehensible

comprehensible

/ (ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnsəbəl) /

adjective

capable of being comprehended

Derived forms of comprehensible

comprehensibility or comprehensibleness, noun comprehensibly, adverb

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