intelligible
/ɪnˈtɛlɪdʒɪb(ə)l
/adjective
1Able to be understood; comprehensible: use vocabulary that is intelligible to your audience a barely intelligible reply...
- Attendees are guaranteed that at least one-third of all words used will be intelligible to the general public.
- An examination structure, intelligible to pupils, parents and employers, must be a priority as a means of getting these proposals off the ground.
- The individual cannot make himself intelligible to anybody.
Synonyms
comprehensible, understandable;
easy to understand, accessible, digestible, user-friendly;
lucid, clear, crystal clear, coherent, transparent, plain, simple, perspicuous, explicit, precise, unambiguous, self-explanatory, penetrable, fathomable, graspable
1.1 Philosophy Able to be understood only by the intellect, not by the senses.
Derivatives
intelligibly
/ adverb ...- Are notes articulated clearly and intelligibly?
- The case can be put quite simply and intelligibly.
- During their second year, toddlers begin to talk intelligibly and by their second birthday they can happily chatter away.
Origin
Late Middle English (also in the sense 'capable of understanding'): from Latin intelligibilis, from intelligere 'understand' (see intelligent).
Rhymes
- mutter
- mutterance
- mutterer
- muttering
- mutteringly
- muttery
- mutt-eye
- mutti
- mutton
- mutton bird
- muttonbirder
- mutton-bird gale
- muttonbirding
- mutton bird islands
- mutton-bird scrub
- mutton-bird tree
- mutton bone
- mutton chops
- mutton-chop whiskered
- mutton chop whiskers
- mutton cloth
- mutton dressed as lamb
- mutton dummy
- mutton fat
- mutton-fish