intelligible

Speech parts

1. intelligible - Adjective

3. intelligible - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Capable of being understood or comprehended; as, an intelligible account or description; intelligible pronunciation, writing, etc.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

understandable clear plain comprehensible graspable lucid distinct evident transparent coherent readable clear-cut perspicuous unambiguous perceivable
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Antonyms

unintelligible complex difficult advanced dark ruled
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Phrases with the word

make intelligible intelligible pattern

Examples

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. Arnold J. Toynbee

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. David Hume

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. Arthur Schopenhauer

The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence. James Joseph Sylvester

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. Martin Heidegger

James Kelly (1818). A Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs Explained and Made Intelligible to the English Reader. Rodwell and Martin. p. 43. Chinese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

intelligentness intelligentsia intelligibility intelligibleness intelligibly Intelnet