as in understandable
capable of being understood
speculation on the odds that a communication from a far-off planet would be intelligible
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Recent Examples of intelligible
Clear, intelligible, physical consequences for success or failure in combat are crucial to building effective battle sequences, and Wheel comfortably passes that test this week.
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Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2025
The Library of Congress digitized a collection of Bell’s documents describing his breakthrough experiment with sound wave vibrations that could replicate intelligible sound transmitted from one place to another.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 10 Mar. 2025
My family attended an evangelical church that believed in Hell in a way that would have been intelligible, if abhorrent, to the medieval Catholic Dante.
—Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The lyrics manage to be about nothing in particular yet totally intelligible.
—Marc Tracy, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
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Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2025
The Library of Congress digitized a collection of Bell’s documents describing his breakthrough experiment with sound wave vibrations that could replicate intelligible sound transmitted from one place to another.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 10 Mar. 2025
My family attended an evangelical church that believed in Hell in a way that would have been intelligible, if abhorrent, to the medieval Catholic Dante.
—Elisa Gonzalez, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The lyrics manage to be about nothing in particular yet totally intelligible.
—Marc Tracy, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intelligible
Adjective
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So, Katz was, and continues to be, ahead of her time, offering a medley of individualized laser services (something that is still somewhat rare in combination) at a price that makes these often astronomical treatments relatively accessible.—
Nora Zelevansky,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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The aircraft, built by the Douglas Aircraft Company, is from a time when air travel became more accessible to people.—
Chase Jordan,
Charlotte Observer,
26 June 2025
Adjective
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Election officials, civil society groups and researchers can teach how audits work, host open-source verification demonstrations and ensure that high-tech electoral processes are comprehensible to voters.—
Bruce Schneier,
The Conversation,
27 June 2025
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In this quest, the reader often finds that through the understanding of the fictional, the real becomes more comprehensible.—
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim,
The Dial,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Intelligible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intelligible. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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