Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an intelligible manner; so as to be understood; clearly; plainly: as, to write or speak intelligibly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In an intelligible manner; so as to be understood; clearly; plainly.

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  • adverb In an intelligible manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in an intelligible manner

Etymologies

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intelligible +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • And often, when it takes effort to speak a word intelligibly, the wrong word comes out because too much of my focus is on the effort of talking instead of the thinking of what to say.

    Dilbert Creator Hacks His Own Brain 2006

  • Madrid, if you please! after a few weeks 'acquaintance with her husband, who doubtless wrote his name intelligibly in the registrar's book, but does not prove himself much the hero when he drives a pen, even for so little as the signing of his name!

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Hang superexcellence! but we know those moanings over the troubles of a married woman; we know their sources, know their goal, or else we are the fiction-puppet or the Bedlamite; and she is a married woman, married at the British Embassy, Madrid, if you please! after a few weeks 'acquaintance with her husband, who doubtless wrote his name intelligibly in the registrar's book, but does not prove himself much the hero when he drives a pen, even for so little as the signing of his name!

    Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

  • -- As revealed in issue #17, Konvikt was deprived of the ability to speak (intelligibly, that is) as a part of the criminal proceedings against him.

    Annotations for Trinity issue #45 | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • - As revealed in issue #17, Konvikt was deprived of the ability to speak (intelligibly, that is) as a part of the criminal proceedings against him.

    Comic Book Resources 2009

  • How come I could receive it, intelligibly, I mean?

    CENTAURI CALLING • by Jenny Schwartz 2010

  • The advance staffer in charge of the audio worried a gust would be picked up by the microphone and drown out Morrison as he gave an answer the campaign would want broadcast intelligibly on television.

    O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011

  • That awkward man communicating anything intelligibly seemed preposterous, and for him to do so under fire brought science fiction to mind.

    Haroon Moghul: Finding Meaning In The Death Of A Teacher Haroon Moghul 2011

  • I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so.

    Raising Hackles with Synthetic Fly Materials... 2009

  • I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so.

    Raising Hackles with Synthetic Fly Materials... 2009

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