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/kˌɑmprihˈɛnsəbəl/ Listen

adjective

Comprehensible adj.

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."

Capable of being understood; intelligible; conceivable by the mind. "The horizon sets the bounds... between what is and what is not comprehensible by us."

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Etymology of 'Comprehensible'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Comprehensible" Quotes from Famous Books

... his esteem, for, though guilty of no banalities, he had a way of silently hovering over the baby-carriage which Stefan found mysteriously irritating. Jamie alone of their masculine friends seemed to adopt a comprehensible attitude, for he backed away in hasty alarm whenever the infant, in arms or carriage, bore down upon him. On several occasions when the Farraday household invaded the Byrdsnest Stefan and Jamie together sneaked away in search of an environment ...

— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

... accept your offer in the spirit with which you tender it. Unfortunately, I am a maimed person. My sensibilities have gone. Friendship, in the more intimate sense of the word, I may never hope to feel again. Enmity—well, that is more comprehensible; even enmity," he continued slowly, "which might prompt a woman to disguise herself as her own lady's maid, to seek out a tool to get rid of the man she feared. Pardon me, Lady Ruth, you ...

— The Malefactor • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... into the depths where the comprehensible ends in the incomprehensible—where the symbols which may be used with confidence so far begin to ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3 • Leonard Huxley

... it is of great importance to determine it even on this account, in order that reason may not on the one band, to the prejudice of morals, seek about in the world of sense for the supreme motive and an interest comprehensible but empirical; and on the other hand, that it may not impotently flap its wings without being able to move in the (for it) empty space of transcendent concepts which we call the intelligible world, ...

— Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals • Immanuel Kant

... world toward these problematical occurrences is quite comprehensible. Throughout the nineteenth century the attention of scientists has been almost wholly directed toward the investigation of the forms and forces of matter, the phenomena and principles of the visible ...

— Man And His Ancestor - A Study In Evolution • Charles Morris

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