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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Examples
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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.
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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
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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
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-- 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.
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- 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
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How come I could receive it, intelligibly, I mean?
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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