COMPREHENSIBLE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does comprehensible mean? 

• COMPREHENSIBLE (adjective)
  The adjective COMPREHENSIBLE has 1 sense:

1. capable of being comprehended or understood

  Familiarity information: COMPREHENSIBLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPREHENSIBLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of being comprehended or understood

Synonyms:

comprehendible; comprehensible

Context example:

an idea comprehensible to the average mind

Similar:

accessible; approachable (capable of being read with comprehension)

apprehensible; graspable; intelligible; perceivable; understandable (capable of being apprehended or understood)

fathomable ((of meaning) capable of being penetrated or comprehended)

Also:

clear (readily apparent to the mind)

explicable (capable of being explicated or accounted for)

intelligible (well articulated or enunciated, and loud enough to be heard distinctly)

Antonym:

incomprehensible (difficult to understand)

Derivation:

comprehend (get the meaning of something)

comprehensibility (the quality of comprehensible language or thought)

 Context examples 

You have only knowledge enough of the language to translate at sight these inverted, transposed, curtailed Italian lines, into clear, comprehensible, elegant English.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Or evaporation might preserve an equilibrium, remarked Challenger, and the two learned men wandered off into one of their usual scientific arguments, which were as comprehensible as Chinese to the layman.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements; a condition of regular or proper arrangement.

(Order, NCI Thesaurus)

One side or the other of his nature was perfectly comprehensible; but both sides together were bewildering.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But in the meantime, talk he must, and it must be his own talk, toned down, of course, so as to be comprehensible to them and so as not to shook them too much.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

That was comprehensible.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)