understandable
IPA: ʌndɝstˈændʌbʌɫ
adjective
- Capable of being understood; comprehensible.
- Capable of being accepted or excused under the circumstances.
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Examples of "understandable" in Sentences
- Were they connected once and split, and how active or malicious or understandable is their rivalry?
- Gen. Petraeus's use of the word "understandable" may have been used more in the sense of predictable, rather than justifiable.
- I had brought another group of PCV guests on the Quba walking tour when a local guy started talking to us in understandable English.
- Van Horn joked him in understandable terms about the latest wives he had added to his harem and what price he had paid for them in pigs.
- That is not a healthy approach for the good of the game's excitement, but understandable from the teams 'perspective for the long-term good.
- As with anti-colonial struggles, the case for a “national liberation movement” is emotionally compelling and psychologically understandable from a Jewish point of view.
- Our thirst for vengeance, though understandable, is distracting us from a terrible reality: the economy is in worse shape than anyone in power is prepared to admit, and public finances are completely out of control.
- Mr. Fitzpatrick said Mr. Grassley's scrutiny, which he described as understandable given the attention paid to potential conflicts of interest in medicine, had led his organization to begin posting on its Web site the names of companies that donate $5,000 or more.
- Although the question has its interest and it's perfectly understandable from the POV of marketing, it doesn't add much in the POV of die-hard (or not so) fans of Batman, who are more than well informed about the movie, from viral propaganda to websites like yours.
- That said, Heinlein’s politics were sometimes pretty despicable in ways which make the label understandable: he often treats women as nice-but-dim home-makers but then again, see the pilots in Starship Troopers; he admires ruthless capability and doesn’t have much time for pity or mercy; he’s a social darwinist or something close to it.
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