- comprehensible
- adjective
Date: 1598
capable of being comprehended ; intelligible <a comprehensible explanation> • comprehensibility noun • comprehensibleness noun • comprehensibly adverb
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compréhensible — [ kɔ̃preɑ̃sibl ] adj. • 1375; lat. comprehensibilis, de comprehendere 1 ♦ Qui peut être compris. ⇒ accessible, clair, intelligible, simple. Message compréhensible. Un texte compréhensible par les enfants. Expliquer d une manière compréhensible. 2 … Encyclopédie Universelle
compréhensible — COMPRÉHENSIBLE. adj. des 2 g. Concevable, intelligible, qui peut être compris, conçu, entendu. Il ne s emploie guère qu avec la négative. Cela n est pas compréhensible. Un raisonnement qui n est pas compréhensible. Il n est pas compréhensible… … Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798
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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
comprehensible — (ant.) adj. Comprensible. * * * comprehensible. (Del lat. comprehensibĭlis). adj. desus. comprensible … Enciclopedia Universal
comprehensible — Comprehensible. adj. de tout genre. Qui peut estre compris, n a guere d usage que par la negative. Cela n est pas comprehensible … Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
comprehensible — I adjective apprehensible, articulate, ascertainable, clear, clear cut, cognizable, cognoscible, comprehendable, conceivable, decipherable, defined, disclosed, easily understood, easy to understand, evident, exoteric, explicable, explicit,… … Law dictionary
comprehensible — 1520s, able to be contained, from L. comprehensibilis, from comprehensus, pp. of comphrehendere (see COMPREHEND (Cf. comprehend)). Meaning able to be understood is from c.1600. Related: Comprehensibly; comprehensibility … Etymology dictionary
comprehensible — [adj] understandable apprehensible, clear, coherent, comprehendible, conceivable, explicit, fathomable, graspable, intelligible, knowable, lucid, luminous, plain; concepts 402,529 Ant. exclusive, incomplete, nonunderstandable, unintelligible … New thesaurus
comprehensible — (Del lat. comprehensibĭlis). adj. desus. comprensible … Diccionario de la lengua española
comprehensible — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ able to be understood; intelligible. DERIVATIVES comprehensibility noun … English terms dictionary
comprehensible — [käm΄prəhen′sə bəl] adj. [L comprehensibilis] that can be comprehended; intelligible comprehensibility n. comprehensibly adv … English World dictionary
