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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Comprehensible \Com"pre*hen"si*ble\, adjective [L. comprehensibilis: cf. F. compre['e]hensible.]
1. Capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised.
Lest this part of knowledge should seem to any not comprehensible by axiom, we will set down some heads of it. --Bacon.
2. Capable of being understood; intelligible; conceivable by the mind.
The horizon sets the bounds . . . between what is and what is not comprehensible by us. --Locke.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
comprehensible
adjective: capable of being comprehended or understood; "an idea comprehensible to the average mind" [syn: {comprehendible}] [ant: {incomprehensible}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "comprehensible": 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
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