comprehensible

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: com=pre=hen=si=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

comprehensible, a. [L. comprehensibilis: cf. F. compreéhensible.].

•  Capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised.  [1913 Webster]

  "Lest this part of knowledge should seem to any not comprehensible by axiom, we will set down some heads of it."  [1913 Webster]
•  Capable of being understood; intelligible; conceivable by the mind.  [1913 Webster]

  "The horizon sets the bounds . . . between what is and what is not comprehensible by us."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

comprehensible, adj.
1 that can be understood; intelligible.
2 that can be included or contained.

Derivative

comprehensibility n. comprehensibly adv.

Etymology

F compr{eacute}hensible or L comprehensibilis (as COMPREHEND)

THESAURUS

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