Comprehensible

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Comprehensible \Com"pre*hen"si*ble\, a. [L. comprehensibilis:
     cf. F. compre['e]hensible.]
     1. Capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised.
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              Lest this part of knowledge should seem to any not


              comprehensible by axiom, we will set down some heads
              of it.                                --Bacon.
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     2. Capable of being understood; intelligible; conceivable by
        the mind.
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              The horizon sets the bounds . . . between what is
              and what is not comprehensible by us. --Locke.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  comprehensible
       adj : capable of being comprehended or understood; "an idea
             comprehensible to the average mind" [syn: {comprehendible}]
             [ant: {incomprehensible}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "comprehensible":
     appreciable, apprehensible, articulate, ascertainable, cognizable,
     conceivable, discernible, discoverable, distinguishable,
     easily understood, easy to understand, exoteric, fathomable,
     graspable, intelligible, knowable, lucid, luminous, penetrable,
     perceptible, plumbable, prehensible, readable, recognizable,
     scrutable, seizable, understandable