comprehensible
IPA: kɑmprihˈɛnsʌbʌɫ
adjective
- Able to be comprehended.
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Examples of "comprehensible" in Sentences
- Of course, it needs to remain comprehensible to readers in 2010, which hobbles me considerably.
- To make such a bizarre term comprehensible, think of "White Nationality" as opposed to South African.
- How she betrays a political secret; how cruel, yet how comprehensible, is Dacier's conduct, the reader will learn in chapters full of charm.
- This phenomenon is easily comprehensible from a physiological standpoint, but to the man who makes the discovery for the first time, it is a most wonderful thing.
- He was not the first to publish a detailed survey of architecture, but his treatise was written in comprehensible language, relatively unencumbered by philosophical verbiage and richly detailed with how-to instruction.
- That is the keynote of the Crébillon novel: it is the handbook, with illustrative examples, of the business, employment, or vocation of flirting, in the most extensive and intensive meanings of that term comprehensible to the eighteenth century.
- I can't regard it as entirely successful because a) I didn't get it all myself (and given what I have learned since then would do differently now) and b) the medievals had to remain comprehensible to the readers, and the readership would have had too many default assumptions to overturn.
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