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comprehensiblecom‧pre‧hen‧si‧ble /ˌkɒmprɪˈhensəbəl $ ˌkɑːm-/ adjective   - comprehensible instructions
- Each entry in the guide is brief and immediately comprehensible.
- The music was experimental, and not comprehensible to the average concert-goer.
- Visual aids can make lessons much more interesting and comprehensible.
- Her speech was slurred and barely comprehensible.
- In so doing, it gave them system and continuity and went far to make economic life comprehensible.
- Land warfare sixty-five years after Waterloo would still have been comprehensible to Napoleon.
- Magnificence is admirable if not always comprehensible, humility is very unattractive to the modern Western mind.
- Metaphor, it turns out, is the key to making computers comprehensible.
- Our treatment in this chapter will try to be as informal as possible in order to be comprehensible.
- Photographic reportage, the cinema and television have produced a lingua franca of universally comprehensible pictures.
- The more directly comprehensible parts of the Challenger's programme were thus made available to the public at a provisional stage.
easy to understand► easy to understand/follow · The instructions are easy to follow.· On cards are five easy to follow recipes for you to cut out and keep.· We try to write it in language that is easy to understand. ► clear instructions, explanations etc that are clear are explained in easy language or stages and are therefore easy to understand: · Most of the 'help' messages you get on computers aren't at all clear to ordinary home users.· Thanks for your directions to the apartment - they were really clear and we had no problems finding it.· Perhaps I didn't make myself clear - there won't be a penny of extra money for this project. ► comprehensible something that is comprehensible is easy to understand because it does not contain any complicated information and is expressed in very clear language: · Visual aids can make lessons much more interesting and comprehensible.· Each entry in the guide is brief and immediately comprehensible.comprehensible to: · The music was experimental, and not comprehensible to the average concert-goer. ► intelligible something that is intelligible , such as a subject you study or a piece of writing or speech, is fairly easy to understand: · Her English was strongly accented but quite intelligible.intelligible to: · It is sometimes difficult to discuss medical issues in a way that is intelligible to ordinary people. ► accessible books, films, information etc that are accessible are written or made in a way that is easy to understand even though they may concern subjects that are complicated: · Philip Glass has produced something very rare -- an accessible modern opera.· I don't find James Joyce's writing very accessible.accessible to: · He was specifically asked to write a play that would be accessible to the local community. ► coherent a piece of writing or speech that is coherent is easy to understand because it is clear and well-planned, so that all the parts fit well together: · I was so confused that I could not give a coherent answer.· Rescuers found Campbell, who was conscious and coherent.· History could be defined as a coherent account of an event. ADVERB► more· They then worked as a class to produce a new rewritten version which they hoped would be more comprehensible.· More than a third of directors want more summarised information and want to see it in a more comprehensible, graphic form. NOUN► input· The solution to our problems as teachers, then, is to provide comprehensible input.· In this respect, the learner exercises his own initiative to ensure the proper supply of comprehensible input.· At the same time, of course, it assures them of comprehensible input.· What communication reduces to is comprehensible input. easy to understand SYN understandable OPP incomprehensible:  Her speech was slurred and barely comprehensible.comprehensible to The procedure must be clear and comprehensible to all staff.—comprehensibility /ˌkɒmprɪhensəˈbɪləti $ ˌkɑːm-/ noun [uncountable] |