Synonyms for comprehensible
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Understandable
understandable, intelligible, clear, lucid, tangible, exoteric, graspable, fathomable, apprehensible formal, perceivable
Other
unpuzzling, comprehendible rare
Definitions
- adj. 1
Able to be comprehended.
Example sentences
- understandable It's understandable that you should feel this way.
- tangible Please show me a tangible example.
- lucid Yanni was lucid and aware of what he was doing.
- intelligible Shawi and Kabyle are mostly mutually intelligible.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| comprehensible | steady | |
| understandable | steady | |
| tangible | steady | |
| lucid | steady | |
| intelligible | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- clear1, lucid2
- 8 letters
- tangible3, exoteric
- 9 letters
- graspable
- 10 letters
- fathomable4, unpuzzling
- 11 letters
- perceivable
- 12 letters
- intelligible5
- 13 letters
- apprehensible
- 14 letters
- understandable5, comprehendible
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (lucid2 = 2 syllables).