comprehensible

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adjective com·pre·hen·si·ble \ ˌkäm-pri-ˈhen(t)-sə-bəl , -prē- \

Definition of comprehensible

:capable of being comprehended :intelligible

a comprehensible explanation

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comprehensibility

play \ˌkäm-pri-ˌhen(t)-sə-ˈbi-lə-tē, -prē-\ noun

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comprehensibleness

play \ˌkäm-pri-ˈhen(t)-sə-bəl-nəs, -prē-\ noun

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comprehensibly

play \ˌkäm-pri-ˈhen(t)-sə-blē, -prē-\ adverb

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Examples of comprehensible in a Sentence

a book that makes the subject of longitude comprehensible to most laymen

Recent Examples of comprehensible from the Web

Practically no words but the few that introduced the next song were comprehensible.

— marcus overton, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Solo vocalists Bora Yoon, Julia Holter blur boundaries at Carlsbad Music Festival," 27 Aug. 2017
Limp Wrist ease up on the throttle, and the slightly less frenzied tempos let Sorrondeguy deliver his passionate lyrics slowly enough to be comprehensible even to someone who's never seen a basement show.

— bill meyer, Chicago Reader, "Reviewed: Twista’s disjointed but generous Crook County and 11 more new releases," 26 July 2017
Words, the medium of poetry but also of criticism, have to be translated to be made comprehensible, while music is universally coherent, the expression of pre- or post-verbal emotions in time.

— joshua cohen, New York Times, "A Prize-Winning French Novel About the Western Obsession With the East," 30 June 2017
A censored, reordered and even less comprehensible version played U.S. theaters.

— michael phillips, chicagotribune.com, "'Beat the Devil' a Bogart oddity, digitally restored to its oddball fullest," 16 June 2017
That's why the Bank of England turned to an unusual source to figure out how to make its financial reports more comprehensible to the average reader: the works of famed children's author and illustrator Dr. Seuss.

— weston williams, The Christian Science Monitor, "How the Bank of England took a page from Dr. Seuss," 31 May 2017
To put it another way, midlife reckonings revise the events of the past to make the present comprehensible.

— laura kipnis, The Atlantic, "Screw Wisdom," 16 May 2017
And the premise, which is barely comprehensible at the best of times, just wafts in and out of the play as suits the song choice.

— trevor fraser, OrlandoSentinel.com, "'Soap Opera - Sloppy Seconds' at Orlando Fringe Festival," 16 May 2017
Euripides’ play now seems one of the most easily comprehensible works of Greek tragedy: A woman scorned by her husband desperately kills their children.

— mary beard, New York Times, "A Pair of Updated Greek Tragedies Startle Us Anew," 11 May 2017

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