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Synonyms for understandable


Grammar : Adj
Spell : uhn-der-stan-duh-buh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˌʌn dərˈstæn də bəl

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Définition of understandable

Origin :
  • late 14c., "able to understand;" late 15c., "able to be understood," from understand + -able. Related: Understandably.
  • adj comprehensible
  • adj expected
  • adj able to be understood
Example sentences :
  • Some understandable bit of machinery would have been reassuring.
  • Extract from : « Two Thousand Miles Below » by Charles Willard Diffin
  • Gropingly he tried to marshal his facts into some understandable sequence.
  • Extract from : « Two Thousand Miles Below » by Charles Willard Diffin
  • The comparison may be a homely one, but it is understandable.
  • Extract from : « Sex=The Unknown Quantity » by Ali Nomad
  • His desire to avoid it in the midst of a campaign is understandable.
  • Extract from : « A Preface to Politics » by Walter Lippmann
  • He did not notice the Harn creature at all—which was understandable, it was well camouflaged.
  • Extract from : « Cat and Mouse » by Ralph Williams
  • But the language of the eye is sometimes as clear and understandable as the language of the ear.
  • Extract from : « The Buffalo Runners » by R.M. Ballantyne
  • Perhaps we had better sit down and I will try to make it understandable.
  • Extract from : « Mr. Wicker's Window » by Carley Dawson
  • Nor was it an understandable thing, except to the woman who loved him.
  • Extract from : « A Modern Chronicle, Complete » by Winston Churchill
  • A wizard was understandable; but this was diabolism beyond sanity.
  • Extract from : « The Hour of the Dragon » by Robert E. Howard
  • The writing, however, was understandable only by those who had heard the order given.
  • Extract from : « At the Court of the Amr » by John Alfred Gray

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