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adjectivecapable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible. Also com·pre·hend·i·ble [kom-pri-hen-duh-buhl]. /ˌkɒm prɪˈhɛn də bəl/. Origin of comprehensibleFrom theLatin word comprehēnsibilis, dating back to 1520–30. See comprehension, -ible OTHER WORDS FROM comprehensiblecom·pre·hen·si·bil·i·ty, com·pre·hen·si·ble·ness, nouncom·pre·hen·si·bly, adverbin·ter·com·pre·hen·si·bil·i·ty, nounnon·com·pre·hend·i·ble, adjective non·com·pre·hen·si·ble, adjectivenon·com·pre·hen·si·ble·ly, adverbun·com·pre·hen·si·ble, adjectiveun·com·pre·hen·si·ble·ness, nounun·com·pre·hen·si·bly, adverb WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH comprehensiblecomprehensible , comprehensiveWords nearby comprehensiblecompound sugar, compound time, compound-wound, comprador, comprehend, comprehensible, comprehension, comprehensive, comprehensive school, compress, compressed Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for comprehensibleIf nothing else, this comprehensive and comprehensible idea could move our leaders past the present paralysis. The 2 Cent Budget Fix|Michael Medved|January 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST But they're comprehensible, and that comprehensibility is surprisingly comforting. There's Little We Can Do to Prevent Another Massacre|Megan McArdle|December 17, 2012|DAILY BEAST Most crimes are motivated by unlovely impulses that are at least comprehensible: the desire for money, sex, respect, revenge. There's Little We Can Do to Prevent Another Massacre|Megan McArdle|December 17, 2012|DAILY BEAST Also, of course, George made his money in a straightforward and comprehensible way. The Apple That Fell Far From the Tree|Michael Tomasky|July 9, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Mitt needs a simpler, more down-to-earth blueprint with catchy and comprehensible elements—something like his own 9-9-9 plan. Mitt Romney Should Learn a Lesson from Teddy Kennedy|Michael Medved|February 3, 2012|DAILY BEAST He set up a new authority against an old authority; but He set it up with positive commandments and a comprehensible scheme. Eugenics and Other Evils|G. K. Chesterton But to his friends his mastery of the English tongue in such circumstances is comprehensible. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke The appeal was comprehensible, and the charioteer, assiduously obliging, fell to posture of checking none too volant steeds. The So-called Human Race|Bert Leston Taylor He was very fond of the Leyburn girls, but music seemed to him, good man, one of the least comprehensible of human pleasures. Robert Elsmere|Mrs. Humphry Ward In this way he explained various laws, and rendered them comprehensible, when they seemed obscure or in any way extraordinary. History of the Jews, Vol. II (of 6)|Heinrich Graetz
British Dictionary definitions for comprehensible
adjectivecapable of being comprehended Derived forms of comprehensiblecomprehensibility or comprehensibleness, nouncomprehensibly, adverbCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to comprehensibleexplicit, coherent, intelligible, comprehendible, clear, conceivable, knowable, lucid, luminous, plain, fathomable, apprehensible, graspable |