comprehensible

comprehensible (ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnsəb^əl)

—*adj*
	capable of being comprehended

comprehensi'bility

—n

compre'hensibleness

—n

compre'hensibly

—*adv*

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comprehensible

1520s, "able to be contained," from L. comprehensibilem, from comprehensus, pp. of comphrehendere (see comprehend). Meaning "able to be understood" is from c.1600.

Example sentences

Its purpose is to set out the facts in a comprehensible form so that the

political system can respond.

Then there's the question of how to make the message itself comprehensible.

The vivid illustrations, pictures, and graphics throughout the book make the

information even more accessible and comprehensible.

It was important to me that a book that was mainly about a tragedy on a

tremendous scale be comprehensible.

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"Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man."

-Anton Pavlovich Chekhov