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comprehensible

[kom-pri-hen-suh-buhl]

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adjective

capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.

Also, com·pre·hend·i·ble

[kom-pri-hen-duh-buhl] .

Origin:
1520–30; < Latin comprehēnsibilis. See comprehension, -ible

Related forms

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

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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·b·ly, adverb

COLLAPSE

Can be confused: comprehensible, comprehensive.

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Example Sentences

So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.

The advantage of that is it will force you, when you talk about your work, to make it comprehensible to a broad range of people.

He has, too, the electorally useful knack of reducing the complex issue to the comprehensible soundbite.

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So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.

The advantage of that is it will force you, when you talk about your work, to make it comprehensible to a broad range of people.

He has, too, the electorally useful knack of reducing the complex issue to the comprehensible soundbite.

The vivid illustrations, pictures, and graphics throughout the book make the information even more accessible and comprehensible.

Yet the statement was instantly and fluently comprehensible.

Editors at some journals do extensive editing to ensure their papers are comprehensible and nothing important has been missed.

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

From the law of gravity to e=mc2, equations have been stunningly successful in rendering the world around us comprehensible.

Understand that it takes a certain talent to make the subtleties and nuances of academe comprehensible for the average donor.

Its detail and human scale are both comprehensible and comforting.

Far better to show a smaller portion of the work at a comprehensible pace.

In his mind, he was creating a coherent framework, a comprehensible rule set…a salable product.

Instead, it was devolving into a technical discipline that was even less comprehensible than it was relevant.

It was important to me that a book that was mainly about a tragedy on a tremendous scale be comprehensible.

Less certain is whether all that coverage will be comprehensible.

So the reasons behind the recall are comprehensible.

Its purpose is to set out the facts in a comprehensible form so that the political system can respond.

It was a radical solution to opera's seemingly insoluble war between musical beauty and comprehensible language.

No one has yet devised a comprehensible or testable theory of the.

The song lyrics and poems maintain the evocative and not always comprehensible island patois.

Yet this is a carefully rehearsed and mutually comprehensible ritual for which both sides deserve credit, of a sort.

What are comprehensible are the two intercut lines of visual action, both having the style of political cartoons.

The question is, how comprehensible will future mathematical proofs.

And the interface had to be comprehensible by someone who had never seen a.

But they never connect into a comprehensible story with any.

It must be comprehensible to those being evaluated and also to the public.

It encapsulates human experience into an ordered, comprehensible melodrama that is both absurd and entertaining.

They have to be comprehensible and predictable, and the current laws are not.

Instead, it was devolving into a highly technical discipline that was even less comprehensible than it was relevant.

Where they fail is in making something moving and comprehensible of the contradictory impulses within their fictional characters.

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World English Dictionary

comprehensible (ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnsəb^əl)

—*adj*
	capable of being comprehended

comprehensi'bility

—n

compre'hensibleness

—n

compre'hensibly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

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.

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