Search Result for "comprehensible":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. capable of being comprehended or understood;
- Example: "an idea comprehensible to the average mind"
[syn: comprehensible, comprehendible]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Comprehensible \Com"pre*hen"si*ble\, a. [L. comprehensibilis: cf. F. compre['e]hensible.] 1. Capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised. [1913 Webster] Lest this part of knowledge should seem to any not comprehensible by axiom, we will set down some heads of it. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] 2. Capable of being understood; intelligible; conceivable by the mind. [1913 Webster] The horizon sets the bounds . . . between what is and what is not comprehensible by us. --Locke. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "comprehensible": appreciable, apprehensible, articulate, ascertainable, cognizable, conceivable, discernible, discoverable, distinguishable, easily understood, easy to understand, exoteric, fathomable, graspable, intelligible, knowable, lucid, luminous, penetrable, perceptible, plumbable, prehensible, readable, recognizable, scrutable, seizable, understandable
