comprehensible
adjective/ˌkɒmprɪˈhensəbl/
/ˌkɑːmprɪˈhensəbl/
(formal)- comprehensible (to somebody) that can be understood by somebody
- easily/readily comprehensible to the average reader
Extra Examples- His French was barely comprehensible.
- The instructions should be easily comprehensible to parents.
- The system is perfectly comprehensible to most people.
- We changed the wording of the text to make it more comprehensible.
- The novel is easily comprehensible to the average reader.
- The public needs information in a comprehensible form.
- We need to make the process of buying and selling homes more comprehensible.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- make something
- …
- easily
- readily
- entirely
- …
- to
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from French compréhensible or Latin comprehensibilis, from comprehens- ‘seized, comprised’, from the verb comprehendere, from com- ‘together’ + prehendere ‘grasp’.Definitions on the go
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