comprehensible

/ˈkɑmprəˌhɛnsəbəl/

/kɒmprɪˈhɛnsɪbəl/

Other forms: comprehensibly

Anything comprehensible is clear and intelligible — you can understand it. On the first day of school, if nothing your teacher says is comprehensible, you'll know you're in the wrong French class!

When you comprehend something, you understand it, so when things are comprehensible, they're clear enough that they can be understood. Go down the hall to the French I classroom, and the teacher's slow speech and clear explanations will make the language comprehensible. If you write your homework out carefully and neatly, it will be comprehensible enough for your teacher to read it.

Definitions of comprehensible

1. adjective

   capable of being comprehended or understood
   “an idea comprehensible to the average mind”

   synonyms: comprehendible

   clear

   readily apparent to the mind

   accessible, approachable

   capable of being read with comprehension

   apprehensible, graspable, intelligible, perceivable, understandable

   capable of being apprehended or understood

   fathomable

   (of meaning) capable of being penetrated or comprehended

   explicable

   capable of being explicated or accounted for

   intelligible

   well articulated or enunciated, and loud enough to be heard distinctly

   antonyms:

   incomprehensible

   difficult to understand

   unclear

   not clear to the mind

   dark, obscure

   marked by difficulty of style or expression

   enigmatic, enigmatical, puzzling

   not clear to the understanding

   unfathomable

   impossible to come to understand

   impenetrable

   impossible to understand

   indecipherable

   impossible to determine the meaning of

   lost, missed

   not caught with the senses or the mind

   opaque, unintelligible

   not clearly understood or expressed

   incomprehensible, inexplicable

   incapable of being explained or accounted for

   unintelligible

   poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise