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[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.
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Lest this part of knowledge should seem to any not
comprehensible by axiom, we will set down some heads
of it. --Bacon.
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2. Capable of being understood; intelligible; conceivable by
the mind.
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The horizon sets the bounds . . . between what is
and what is not comprehensible by us. --Locke.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
comprehensible
adj 1: capable of being comprehended or understood; "an idea
comprehensible to the average mind" [syn:
comprehensible, comprehendible] [ant:
incomprehensible, uncomprehensible]