DECIPHERABLE Synonyms: 138 Similar and Opposite Words

decipherable

adjective

Definition of decipherable

as in analyzable

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as in legible

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Recent Examples of decipherable There was little or no organization among them, and some were scrawled in barely decipherable handwriting. — Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 30 June 2026 Most Yiddish literature, and especially that by women, was published in now-scarce journals, or on barely decipherable newsprint. — Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026 Avoid objectionable language, also known as any word or phrase that is readily decipherable. — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Jan. 2026 As Sportico has detailed, many of these cases have come up short, including because courts have found the VPPA concerns information that would be decipherable to an ordinary person—like a list of videos someone watched—whereas interpretation of cookies requires technology and expertise. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 31 Oct. 2025 The luxury of listening to recordings is that an opera need not have a decipherable plot or a plausible setting to give pleasure. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for decipherable

Adjective

This book isolated and made analyzable things which had heretofore floated along unnoticed in the broad stream of perception.

— Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
At its core, this strategy uses AI to turn buyer–seller interactions into structured, analyzable data.

— Seth Marrs, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026

Definition of analyzable

Adjective

That visibility turns a private choice into a socially legible one.

— Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 26 Aug. 2026
The wry, winking tone still legible in its pages was an early iteration of the urbane magazine voice that powered nineteenth-century publications such as Judge and Puck, as well as later ones like The New Yorker, New York, Spy, and Gawker.

— Eric Lach, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of legible

Adjective

Many of these high-fiber candies use isolated fibers, such as inulin, chicory root, soluble corn fiber, and other prebiotics.

— Amber Raiken, Verywell Health, 26 Aug. 2026
Phosphite is more soluble in water than phosphate and has been proposed before as a prebiotic source of phosphorus.

— Philip Ball, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of soluble

Adjective

Fourteen of the fifteen targets that gave readable measurements yielded at least one working design.

— Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
On October 1, Netflix will premiere Kazan’s sweeping adaptation of John Steinbeck’s novel, an eminently readable doorstop stuffed with a variety of weighty themes.

— Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of readable

Adjective

In a later exchange, Cowdray conceded that much of Opperman’s characterization was on target, if explainable.

— Noah Shachtman, Vanity Fair, 25 Aug. 2026
The objective of this architecture was to transform data from a passive reference archive into an active, explainable decision-making framework.

— Filip Popovic, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of explainable

Adjective

Inflicting these details on the jury, the children’s family members, and the public served no discernible purpose in establishing Clancy’s mens rea, which might have discredited her not-guilty plea.

— Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2026
Its Fourier transform has a wide spread of frequencies — a sound with no discernible pitch.

— Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of discernible

Adjective

Dig a bit deeper, and those four straight first-round defeats are a bit more explicable.

— Ava Wallace, New York Times, 5 July 2026
That’s the only explicable reason for Australians to be riled up by comments from a guy most American fans can’t pick out of a lineup, whose most productive season came for a club literally named the Rough Riders.

— Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026

Definition of explicable

Adjective

Give people explicit permission to ideate, to learn, to bring you the thing nobody asked for.

— Barnaby Lashbrooke, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Trump did not provide specific details, timelines or explicit penalty structures for non-compliant nations or foreign entities.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 20 Aug. 2026

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