Synonyms for understandable
- adjective
Most common
comprehensible intelligible clear perceivable excusable acceptable
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Comprehensible
comprehensible, intelligible, clear, perceivable, apprehensible formal, exoteric, graspable
2. Excusable — capable of being accepted or excused under the circumstances; permissible
Definitions
- adj. 1
Capable of being accepted or excused under the circumstances; permissible.
- adj. 2
Capable of being understood; comprehensible.
Related words
- Word family
- understandableness understandably understandability
Example sentences
- intelligible Shawi and Kabyle are mostly mutually intelligible.
- comprehensible The universe is not obliged to be comprehensible to us.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| understandable | steady | |
| intelligible | steady | |
| comprehensible | steady | |
| perceivable | rising | |
| graspable | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- clear1
- 8 letters
- exoteric
- 9 letters
- excusable4, graspable
- 10 letters
- acceptable4
- 11 letters
- perceivable
- 12 letters
- intelligible5
- 13 letters
- apprehensible
- 14 letters
- comprehensible5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (excusable4 = 4 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- compréhensible
- Italiano
- comprensibile
- Español
- comprensible