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comprehensible

adjective as in understandable

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Shells, at one time or another, seem to have represented all of these things, and Barnett’s book buzzes with histories spanning a barely comprehensible 800 million years.

Now, in a scientific milestone, researchers have tapped into the speech areas of his brain—allowing him to produce comprehensible words and sentences simply by trying to say them.

If you’re curious, feel free to explore some more technical, but still comprehensible methods to parse out seasonality.

It’s that much of the base has, for comprehensible reasons, embraced the idea that they’re better served by fending for themselves than organizing under the umbrella of the party.

More comprehensible research has shown that behavior seems to be the most important tool to cope with extreme heat in warm-blooded creatures.

If nothing else, this comprehensive and comprehensible idea could move our leaders past the present paralysis.

But they're comprehensible, and that comprehensibility is surprisingly comforting.

Most crimes are motivated by unlovely impulses that are at least comprehensible: the desire for money, sex, respect, revenge.

Ghesquière is a resolutely modern designer whose work is both comprehensible and challenging.

Also, of course, George made his money in a straightforward and comprehensible way.

Now there is a cause for this, as there is no effect without a cause, a comprehensible remediable cause.

This attitude of the scientific world toward these problematical occurrences is quite comprehensible.

If religion was comprehensible, priests would not have so many charges here below.

To even such genuine modesty as Jim-Ed's this was comprehensible.

This historical inquiry was neither comprehensible nor interesting.

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On this page you'll find 59 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to comprehensible, such as: coherent, explicit, intelligible, comprehendible, apprehensible, and clear.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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