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understandable

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of understandable

capable of being understood
  • with understandable pain and anger, the victim's family lashed out at the convicted murderer
Synonyms of understandable

accessible, apprehensible, coherent, comprehendible, comprehensible, fathomable, graspable, intelligible, legible, scrutable
Words Related to understandable

decipherable

plain, simple, straightforward

articulate, fluent, well-spoken
Near Antonyms of understandable

inarticulate

cryptic, esoteric, mysterious, obscure
Antonyms of understandable

incoherent, incomprehensible, inscrutable, insensible

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