Synonyms of intelligible

intelligible

adjective

in-ˈte-lə-jə-bəl 

as in understandable

capable of being understood

speculation on the odds that a communication from a far-off planet would be intelligible

Synonyms & Similar Words

• understandable
• accessible
• comprehensible
• coherent
• legible
• comprehendible
• graspable
• scrutable
• apprehensible
• fathomable
• simple
• straightforward
• articulate
• decipherable
• plain
• fluent
• well-spoken

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• incomprehensible
• incoherent
• inscrutable
• obscure
• mysterious
• insensible
• esoteric
• cryptic
• inarticulate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of intelligible

Tamil itself is no less a political construction, with public discourse and education carried out in a self-consciously archaic form of the language only half-intelligible to many speakers of its multifarious vernaculars. — Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 July 2026

The Minions lose their Hollywood careers because sound arrives and nobody can understand their language, the same problem the real franchise solved 16 years ago by never giving its characters intelligible dialogue in the first place. — David Deal, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

Even Karp’s more intelligible arguments are quickly trampled over as additional intrusive thoughts took the wheel. — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 1 July 2026

Louden points out, for example, that Swedish and Norwegian are highly mutually intelligible, but neither is considered a dialect of the other, or of a parent language, primarily because each is associated with a separate nation-state. — Eythana Miller, The Dial, 23 June 2026