comprehensible Definition
com·pre·hen·sible (-hen′sə bəl)
adjective
that can be comprehended; intelligible
Etymology: L comprehensibilis
comprehensible Related Forms
com′·pre·hen′·si·bil′·ity noun
com′·pre·hen′·sibly adverb
comprehensible Synonyms
comprehensible Usage Examples
Adjective complement with noun phrase
make: The use of a fair amount of white space often helps to make the overall layout comprehensible.
Modifies a noun
- manner: Due to standard Egyptian artistic convention each element of the lathe is depicted in the most comprehensible manner for the observer.
- input: Young children learning their first language need simplified, comprehensible input.
- explanation: This site offers a cogent and comprehensible explanation of the issue.
- output: Comprehensible input will support pupils to deliver comprehensible output.
- introduction: We advocate that the content of the primary curriculum is changed to enable teachers to give an exciting, comprehensible introduction.
- survey: Put in shopping basket A comprehensible survey of European pocket watch production from its beginnings to the 1930`s.
Modifying Another Word
- readily: Such publications are not always readily comprehensible to the applied statisticians who will be the most frequent users of the methods.
- barely: In the instance of the Robbins problem, the computer demonstration is just barely comprehensible to humans.
- mutually: Finally, we introduce Semantic Negotiation, a process by which two agents can negotiate a mutually comprehensible reference for an object.
- perfectly: All perfectly comprehensible on the basis of first century rhetorical norms.
- easily: By dividing subject areas into smaller, more manageable chunks they can become more easily comprehensible.
- entirely: Much new information was included, not all of it entirely comprehensible.
Used with adjective complement
- become: By dividing subject areas into smaller, more manageable chunks they can become more easily comprehensible.
- make: How can the treaties be simplified and made more comprehensible for people to understand who does what and at what level?
- seem: It's infuriating, as the concept seems so nearly comprehensible.
- render: Presumably, everything has now been rendered perfectly comprehensible.
- remain: The many night scenes are very dark but remain easily comprehensible.
Preposition: without
reference: These should be comprehensible without reference to the text.
Preposition: in
term: The point is to show that the uniqueness of consciousness is comprehensible in terms of a more general kind of emergence.
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