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deprehensible

deprehensible adjective: capable of being caught or discovered.

Adjective

deprehensible (comparative more deprehensible, superlative most deprehensible)

  1. (obsolete) Capable of being caught or discovered.
    • Cardan somewhere intimates that their approaches are deprehensible by certain sweet smells they cast.1655, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism

Forms of deprehensible

comparativemore deprehensible
superlativemost deprehensible

Questions about deprehensible

What does deprehensible mean?
Deprehensible means capable of being caught or discovered.
What part of speech is deprehensible?
Deprehensible is an adjective.

Words near deprehensible in the dictionary

  1. depreferencing
  2. deprehend
  3. deprehended
  4. deprehending
  5. deprehends
  6. deprehensible
  7. deprehension
  8. deprehensions
  9. deprenyl
  10. deprenylation
  11. depreotide

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