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intelligible adjective [ ɪnˈtɛlɪdʒɪb(ə)l ]

• able to be understood; comprehensible.
• "use vocabulary that is intelligible to your audience"
Similar: comprehensible, understandable, easy to understand, accessible, digestible, user-friendly, lucid, clear, crystal clear, coherent, transparent, plain, simple, perspicuous, explicit, precise, unambiguous, self-explanatory, penetrable, fathomable, graspable,
Opposite: unintelligible,
Origin: late Middle English (also in the sense ‘capable of understanding’): from Latin intelligibilis, from intelligere ‘understand’ (see intelligent).


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