Comprehensible
[kɒmprɪ'hensɪb(ə)l] or ['kɑmprɪ'hɛnsəbl]
Definition
(adj.) capable of being comprehended or understood; 'an idea comprehensible to the average mind' .
Checker: Sinclair--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised.
(a.) Capable of being understood; intelligible; conceivable by the mind.
Typist: Sean
Examples
- His errors are readily comprehensible, as, for example, in attributing spontaneous generation to eels, the habits and mode of reproduction of which only recent studies have made fully known. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Typist: Sean