intelligibly

Adverb

Meaning

In an intelligible manner; so as to be understood; clearly; plainly; as, to write or speak intelligibly.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

clearly understandably clear directly simply understanding apparently definitely logically evidently distinctly intelligible loudly comprehensible plainly
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Antonyms

unintelligibly generally slightly faintly delicately ambiguously
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Examples

The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world. Arthur Symons

Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly. James Hudson Taylor

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description [hard-core pornography]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that. Potter Stewart

From the Divine, Eternal Spirit springs Order and Rule and Rectitude of Things, Thro' outward Nature, His Apparent Throne, Visibly seen, intelligibly known, - Proofs of a Boundless Pow'r, a Wisdom's Aid, By Goodness us'd, Eternal and Unmade. John Byrom

the foreigner spoke to us quite intelligibly Source: Internet

But, second, not only can we not know that the objective world is nonmentalistic, we also cannot intelligibly suppose that it could be material. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

intelligibility intelligible intelligibleness Intelnet intemerament intemerate