decipherable

adjective

Definition of decipherablenext
1
as in analyzable

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2
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
  1. analyzable
  2. legible
  3. soluble
  4. readable
  5. explainable
  6. discernible
  7. explicable
  8. explicit
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
  • Its zero-knowledge architecture means the service stores encrypted data rather than the readable contents of documents.
    — StackCommerce Team, PC Magazine, 31 Aug. 2026
  • First, organizations need to make their existing data machine readable.
    — Morgan Beschle, Forbes.com, 28 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
  • Speaking with Sharp and Fabrizio, Sandra Kalander noticed their discernable sincerity in wanting to identify the victim and recognize their humanity, despite the time that had passed.
    — Taylor Romine, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2026
  • If a cluster is determined to exist in Ladera Ranch, epidemiologists Logan Spector and Joseph Wiemels warn that there may be no discernible cause.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 30 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
  • The movie boasts entirely original characters, Lovecraftian vibes, a young Brad Pitt, and explicit horniness.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
  • That can mean funding small pilot programs, giving teams explicit room to experiment within reasonable guardrails, or simply promoting the people already finding smarter ways to work before anyone told them to.
    — Stacy L. Hambleton, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026
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“Decipherable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decipherable. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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