Synonyms for intelligible
- adjective
Most common
understandable lucid comprehensible perceivable knowable illuminable
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Comprehensible
comprehensible, understandable, clear, perceivable, lucid, exoteric, plain, luminous, graspable, apprehensible formal, perspicuous, tangible
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Capable of being understood; clear to the mind.
Italian and Spanish are partially mutually intelligible languages.
Related words
- Phrases
- mutually intelligible
Example sentences
- understandable It's understandable that you should feel this way.
- lucid Yanni was lucid and aware of what he was doing.
- comprehensible The universe is not obliged to be comprehensible to us.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| intelligible | steady | |
| understandable | steady | |
| lucid | steady | |
| comprehensible | steady | |
| perceivable | rising | |
| knowable | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- clear1, plain1, lucid2
- 8 letters
- tangible3, luminous3, knowable, exoteric
- 9 letters
- graspable
- 11 letters
- perceivable, perspicuous, illuminable
- 13 letters
- apprehensible
- 14 letters
- understandable5, comprehensible5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (lucid2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- intelligible
- Italiano
- intelligibile
- Español
- inteligible
- Català
- intel·ligible