comprehensible
/kɒmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/
comprehensible adjective: able to be comprehended.
Adjective
comprehensible (comparative more comprehensible, superlative most comprehensible)
- Able to be comprehended.
- Synonyms:
- apprehensible, clear, intelligible, understandable, limpid, explainable, explicable, explicatable, fathomable, graspable
comprehensible meaning in Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic
comprehensible in Bengali
- বোধগম্য
comprehensible in Malayalam
- ഗ്രഹിക്കത്തക്ക, വിചാരിക്കത്തക്ക, മനസ്സിലാകത്തക്ക, ഗ്രഹിക്കാവുന്ന
comprehensible in Kannada
- ತಿಳಿಯಬಹುದಾದ, ಅರಿಯುವಂಥ
comprehensible in Arabic
- able to be comprehended
- مَفْهُوم mafhūm
More languagesFewer languages
- comprehensible in Indonesian
- dapat dimengerti, terpahamkan, yang dpt dipahami, yang dpt dimengerti
Examples of comprehensible in a sentence
- He spoke in a barely comprehensible mumble.
- These unidiomatic utterances are easily comprehensible but are not grammatical.
- When enough comprehensible input is provided, i+1 is present.
Synonyms of comprehensible
- apprehensible
- clear
- intelligible
- understandable
- limpid
- explainable
- explicable
- explicatable
- fathomable
- graspable
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Antonyms
Forms of comprehensible
| comparative | more comprehensible |
|---|---|
| superlative | most comprehensible |
Origin of comprehensible
Borrowed from Latin comprehēnsibilis.
Words formed from comprehensible
Questions about comprehensible
- What does comprehensible mean?
- Comprehensible means able to be comprehended.
- What is comprehensible in Bengali?
- Comprehensible in Bengali is বোধগম্য. See Comprehensible meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is comprehensible?
- Comprehensible is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce comprehensible?
- Comprehensible is pronounced /kɒmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/.
Words near comprehensible in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: comprehensible (page history and authors); comprehensible (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); comprehensible (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); comprehensible (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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