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 understandable
What this means to you For everyday drivers, autonomous trucks raise understandable questions.
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Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 Jan. 2026
In a time of school shootings, classroom bullying, culture wars over curricula, and faltering test scores, the impulse of some parents to take over their child’s education is understandable.
—Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2026
The James Harden deal, while an understandable bet, did not age well, for instance.
—The Athletic Nba Staff, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
That question may be understandable and its implications concerning.
—Dewardric L. McNeal, CNBC, 11 Jan. 2026
Her reasoning is frustrating, but understandable — her husband (Yao), now a vampire, is taunting her outside, and Remmick has threatened to kill her daughter back in town.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Jan. 2026
That perspective is understandable, given decades of foreign meddling in Africa.
—Comfort Ero, Time, 9 Jan. 2026
But that understandable temptation should be avoided.
—Matt Richardson, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
The new document is just 10 pages, upholding Kennedy’s pledge to create a simple, understandable guideline.
—Jonel Aleccia, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 Jan. 2026
In a time of school shootings, classroom bullying, culture wars over curricula, and faltering test scores, the impulse of some parents to take over their child’s education is understandable.
—Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2026
The James Harden deal, while an understandable bet, did not age well, for instance.
—The Athletic Nba Staff, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
That question may be understandable and its implications concerning.
—Dewardric L. McNeal, CNBC, 11 Jan. 2026
Her reasoning is frustrating, but understandable — her husband (Yao), now a vampire, is taunting her outside, and Remmick has threatened to kill her daughter back in town.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Jan. 2026
That perspective is understandable, given decades of foreign meddling in Africa.
—Comfort Ero, Time, 9 Jan. 2026
But that understandable temptation should be avoided.
—Matt Richardson, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
The new document is just 10 pages, upholding Kennedy’s pledge to create a simple, understandable guideline.
—Jonel Aleccia, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for understandable
Adjective
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The researchers say future versions could generate complete 3D models from scratch, making physical product design accessible even to users with no prior modeling experience.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Jan. 2026
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This midsize option from Bagsmart hits the sweet spot with plenty of interior and exterior pockets to keep essentials organized and accessible.—
Annie Blackman,
InStyle,
15 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Mario Kart has to work as an entry point to gaming, something slow and comprehensible enough for your grandma to pick up.—
Ryan Gaur,
Rolling Stone,
19 Nov. 2025
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That’s the novelist within the essayist, who loves a metaphor and senses that a metaphor will tend to be more comprehensible to the general reader than a thousand pages of closely argued Thomas Piketty.—
Zadie Smith,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The earliest Shaker songs, including ones attributed to Lee, have no intelligible language.—
Christian Goodwillie,
The Conversation,
22 Dec. 2025
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Art criticism is about writing, a fundamental way to process that mystery, aiming to discover something at least temporarily intelligible.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
1 Dec. 2025
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