'Comprehensible' definitions:
Definition of 'comprehensible'
From: WordNet
adjective
Capable of being comprehended or understood; "an idea comprehensible to the average mind" [syn: comprehensible, comprehendible] [ant: incomprehensible, uncomprehensible]
Definition of 'Comprehensible'
From: GCIDE
- Comprehensible \Com"pre*hen"si*ble\, a. [L. comprehensibilis: cf. F. compre['e]hensible.]
- 1. 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. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'comprehensible'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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