as in accessible
capable of being understood
with understandable pain and anger, the victim's family lashed out at the convicted murderer
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for understandable
Adjective
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In trying to get neighbors to think of them as an accessible space full of history and nature, its leadership realized their wastewater footprint.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
25 Aug. 2025 -
In addition to the general distribution line, there are separate lines for recipients 65 and older, as well as people who need accessible seating.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
24 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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There’s a moment in the final pages of the Voyage when Darwin implies that his apprehension of the magnitude of time comes to him through a kind of via negativa, that Desert Fathers practice of seeking God by stripping away all that is comprehensible and then watching to see what remains.—
Lewis Hyde,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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Sparse autoencoders, for instance, can help simplify neural network activations into comprehensible parts.—
Rishabh Sambare,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
Adjective
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The resulting voice was often intelligible, but not consistently so.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
19 June 2025
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Many recipients become adept at interpreting the electrodes’ signals as intelligible sounds, especially if the implantation is done in infancy, but others struggle.—
David Owen,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Understandable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/understandable. Accessed 28 Aug. 2025.
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