intelligible
adjUS /ɪnˈtɛləd͡ʒəbəl/
Etymology From Middle French intelligible, from Old French, from Latin intelligibilis.
1
Capable of being understood; clear to the mind.
- Italian and Spanish are partially mutually intelligible languages.
- That comment seemed to anger Ingraham, who called James’ view a “barely intelligible, not to mention ungrammatical take on President Trump.”2018 February 17, Devan Cole, “LeBron James: ‘I am more than an athlete’”, in CNN:
- Synonyms
- understandable
- Antonyms
- unintelligible
- Derived terms
- intelligibility, intelligibleness, intelligibly, interintelligible, mutually intelligible, unintelligible
- Related terms
- legible