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Definition of Comprehensible
1. Adjective. Capable of being comprehended or understood. "An idea comprehensible to the average mind"
Also: Clear, Explicable, Intelligible
Similar to: Accessible, Approachable, Apprehensible, Graspable, Intelligible, Perceivable, Understandable, Fathomable
Derivative terms: Comprehend, Comprehend, Comprehensibility
Antonyms: Incomprehensible
Definition of Comprehensible
1. a. Capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised.
Definition of Comprehensible
1. Adjective. able to be comprehended ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Comprehensible
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comprehensible
Literary usage of Comprehensible
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psychology; Or, The Science of Mind by Oliver S. Munsell (1880)
"Conception the Measure of the comprehensible only. —The fact has been already
sufficiently stated that conception is not the measure of either the actual or ..."
2. Unitarian Principles Confirmed by Trinitarian Testimonies: Being Selections by Octavius Brooks Frothingham, John Wilson (1880)
"THE CREEDS AND MYSTERIES OF THE NEW TESTAMENT SIMPLE AND comprehensible. I am
more zealous than ever I was for the reduction of the Christian faith to the ..."
3. The Battle of the Wilderness by Morris Schaff (1910)
"Let me state the circumstances, and I promise to make the account as short and
comprehensible as I can. Wilson, with his third division of cavalry, ..."
4. A History of Greek Philosophy from the Earliest Period to the Time of Socrates by Eduard Zeller (1881)
"life of nature, and to make the restless alternation of phenomena comprehensible.
Fire is not to him an unvarying substance, out of which things derived ..."
5. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1900)
"They undoubtedly place her on a footing of equality with the king, which is,
however, comprehensible when it is explained that she was the ruler ..."
6. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1879)
"Dr Russell is a practical as well as a scientific sanitarian, and knows well how
to illustrate great truths, and render them comprehensible to imperfectly ..."
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