Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Readily comprehended or understood; intelligible.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being comprehended or included; possible to be comprised.
- Capable of being understood; conceivable by the mind; intelligible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised.
- adjective Capable of being understood; intelligible; conceivable by the mind.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective able to be
comprehended
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being comprehended or understood
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This phenomenon is easily comprehensible from a physiological standpoint, but to the man who makes the discovery for the first time, it is a most wonderful thing.
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This phenomenon is easily comprehensible from a physiological standpoint, but to the man who makes the discovery for the first time, it is a most wonderful thing.
THE SCORN OF WOMEN 2010
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Of course, it needs to remain comprehensible to readers in 2010, which hobbles me considerably.
"And the bone shall never heal. I care not if you kneel." greygirlbeast 2010
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Of course, it needs to remain comprehensible to readers in 2010, which hobbles me considerably.
"And the bone shall never heal. I care not if you kneel." greygirlbeast 2010
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He was not the first to publish a detailed survey of architecture, but his treatise was written in comprehensible language, relatively unencumbered by philosophical verbiage and richly detailed with how-to instruction.
Andrea Palladio's influential architecture at National Building Museum Philip Kennicott 2010
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This phenomenon is easily comprehensible from a physiological standpoint, but to the man who makes the discovery for the first time, it is a most wonderful thing.
The Scorn of Women 1901
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How she betrays a political secret; how cruel, yet how comprehensible, is Dacier's conduct, the reader will learn in chapters full of charm.
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That is the keynote of the Crébillon novel: it is the handbook, with illustrative examples, of the business, employment, or vocation of flirting, in the most extensive and intensive meanings of that term comprehensible to the eighteenth century.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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To make such a bizarre term comprehensible, think of "White Nationality" as opposed to South African.
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I can't regard it as entirely successful because a) I didn't get it all myself (and given what I have learned since then would do differently now) and b) the medievals had to remain comprehensible to the readers, and the readership would have had too many default assumptions to overturn.
April 3rd, 2009 m_francis 2009
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