INTELLIGIBLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intelligibly mean? 

• INTELLIGIBLY (adverb)
  The adverb INTELLIGIBLY has 1 sense:

1. in an intelligible manner

  Familiarity information: INTELLIGIBLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTELLIGIBLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an intelligible manner

Synonyms:

clearly; intelligibly; understandably

Context example:

the foreigner spoke to us quite intelligibly

Antonym:

unintelligibly (in an unintelligible manner)

Pertainym:

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

 Context examples 

There was a great stage, too, looking very clean and smooth after the streets; and there were people upon it, talking about something or other, but not at all intelligibly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

While Jo trudged beside him, feeling as if her place had always been there, and wondering how she ever could have chosen any other lot. Of course, she was the first to speak—intelligibly, I mean, for the emotional remarks which followed her impetuous Oh, yes! were not of a coherent or reportable character.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)