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comprehensible
[ kom-pri-hen-suh-buhl ]
comprehensible
/ ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnsəbəl /
adjective
- capable of being comprehended
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Derived Forms
- ˌcompreˈhensibly, adverb
- ˌcompreˌhensiˈbility, noun
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Other Words From
- compre·hensi·bili·ty compre·hensi·ble·ness noun
- compre·hensi·bly adverb
- inter·compre·hensi·bili·ty noun
- noncom·pre·hendi·ble adjective
- noncom·pre·hensi·ble adjective
- noncom·pre·hensi·ble·ly adverb
- uncom·pre·hensi·ble adjective
- uncom·pre·hensi·ble·ness noun
- uncom·pre·hensi·bly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of comprehensible1
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Example Sentences
If nothing else, this comprehensive and comprehensible idea could move our leaders past the present paralysis.
But they're comprehensible, and that comprehensibility is surprisingly comforting.
Most crimes are motivated by unlovely impulses that are at least comprehensible: the desire for money, sex, respect, revenge.
Ghesquière is a resolutely modern designer whose work is both comprehensible and challenging.
Also, of course, George made his money in a straightforward and comprehensible way.
Now there is a cause for this, as there is no effect without a cause, a comprehensible remediable cause.
This attitude of the scientific world toward these problematical occurrences is quite comprehensible.
If religion was comprehensible, priests would not have so many charges here below.
To even such genuine modesty as Jim-Ed's this was comprehensible.
This historical inquiry was neither comprehensible nor interesting.
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