as in understandable
capable of being understood
a book that makes the subject of longitude comprehensible to most laymen
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Recent Examples of comprehensible
That’s the novelist within the essayist, who loves a metaphor and senses that a metaphor will tend to be more comprehensible to the general reader than a thousand pages of closely argued Thomas Piketty.
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Zadie Smith, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
The idea is to make worker feedback less intimidating for companies by turning it into easily comprehensible data and action items.
—Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2025
Crosser, going into detail comprehensible only to the network-savvy attendees, laid out all the steps Zoom may go through trying to connect from within a highly secure network.
—PC Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
Sparse autoencoders, for instance, can help simplify neural network activations into comprehensible parts.
—Rishabh Sambare, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
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Zadie Smith, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
The idea is to make worker feedback less intimidating for companies by turning it into easily comprehensible data and action items.
—Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2025
Crosser, going into detail comprehensible only to the network-savvy attendees, laid out all the steps Zoom may go through trying to connect from within a highly secure network.
—PC Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
Sparse autoencoders, for instance, can help simplify neural network activations into comprehensible parts.
—Rishabh Sambare, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for comprehensible
Adjective
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In a social situation where a single behavior can lead to accolades (if successful) or public ridicule (if failed), pushing risks past all reason may be understandable, particularly for individuals who have already built their identity and reputation around being an elite risk-taker.—
Christopher Ferguson,
Big Think,
29 Jan. 2026
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Not wishing to linger on the emotional repercussions of these hurtful incidents is understandable, of course.—
Lily Meyer,
The Atlantic,
29 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Instead of opening in a separate tab, the assistant now lives in a side panel that stays accessible across all tabs.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Jan. 2026
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The fraudsters, those administrators say, are taking advantage of a vulnerability created by the degree to which these schools are accessible to students.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Comprehensible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/comprehensible. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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