What does "interintelligible" mean?

Of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety.

What is a synonym for "interintelligible"?

Common synonyms include: mutually intelligible, mutually intelligible.

Interintelligible

adj

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Definitions

Adjective

1
Of a speech variety, able to be understood by speakers of another variety.
"The Okrika dialect, with Kalabari and Bonny, falls into the North-Eastern group of dialects which are partially interintelligible with Brass-Ndembe but not with the Central-Western dialects."

Synonyms

All synonyms

mutually intelligible mutually intelligible

Example

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"The Okrika dialect, with Kalabari and Bonny, falls into the North-Eastern group of dialects which are partially interintelligible with Brass-Ndembe but not with the Central-Western dialects."

Etymology

From inter- + intelligible.

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