Understandable
[ʌndə'stændəbl] or ['ʌndɚ'stændəbl]
Definition
(a.) Capable of being understood; intelligible.
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Examples
- Can you not give me some understandable reason for this melancholy which renders your life so bitter? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It is quite understandable that such a creature would very rarely die in water in such circumstances as to leave bones to become fossilized. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His desire to avoid it in the midst of a campaign is understandable. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In fact, he puzzled society very much, and, as society always takes to that which is not understandable, Crispin was quite the lion of the season. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- One of these was that so messages might be sent understandable by the sender and receiver, but not plain to the uninitiated. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A disposition to propitiate him even after he was dead is quite understandable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These adaptations, no doubt, made the new teaching much more understandable and acceptable in Egypt and Syria and the like. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is understandable. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But now we have a very human and understandable account of him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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