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

Long, parallel avenues organize the space into legible districts —lending order to the swirling movement — with the oculus serving as a useful center of orientation.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
Mason managed the high-wire act of rendering clinical depression legible and domestic ruin funny.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of legible

Adjective

By taking stem cells from a host’s own body and encouraging them to differentiate before mixing them with a commercially available, soluble matrix gel, researchers may have cracked the most critical problems in the transplant process.

— Mike McRae September 02, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2026
An abnormal increase in a protein called sFlt-1 (soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase 1), which slows down placental growth, Kilpatrick says.

— Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of soluble

Adjective

Buckmaster and Alpöge were able to verify that the proof was correct using the programming language Lean, but the English-language explanation the LLMs produced was barely readable, according to Buckmaster.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2026
Details such as accurate speaker attribution, timestamps, terminology and readable formatting are often viewed as production features.

— Beth Worthy, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 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

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

When toggled on, the system must completely shut down its internal brevity algorithms, ignore corporate formatting templates, and allocate the necessary computing power to follow the user's explicit structural constraints to the letter.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026
Heritage cookbook re-issues or major cookware launches, from Dutch ovens to pasta makers to bread proofers, marketed with explicit grandmother or nonna framing.

— Ashley Lynch, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2026

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