The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
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Comprehensible
//kɒmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl//
Synonyms for "comprehensible" (52 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (15)
Related words (26)
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Antonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
7 entriesderived
6 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
13 entriesTranslations
48 translations across 31 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مَفْهُوم adj (able to be comprehended)
Belarusian
1 entries- зразуме́лы adj (able to be comprehended)
Bulgarian
1 entries- разбира́ем adj (able to be comprehended)
Catalan
1 entries- comprensible adj (able to be comprehended)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 可懂的 adj (able to be comprehended)
Czech
2 entries- pochopitelný adj (able to be comprehended)
- srozumitelný adj (able to be comprehended)
Danish
2 entries- begribelig adj (able to be comprehended)
- forståelig adj (able to be comprehended)
Dutch
1 entries- begrijpelijk adj (able to be comprehended)
Finnish
1 entries- ymmärrettävä adj (able to be comprehended)
French
1 entries- compréhensible adj (able to be comprehended)
German
3 entries- begreifbar adj (able to be comprehended)
- fassbar adj (able to be comprehended)
- verständlich adj (able to be comprehended)
Hungarian
2 entries- felfogható adj (able to be comprehended)
- érthető adj (able to be comprehended)
Indonesian
4 entries- dapat dimengerti adj (able to be comprehended)
- terpahamkan adj (able to be comprehended)
- yang dpt dimengerti adj (able to be comprehended)
- yang dpt dipahami adj (able to be comprehended)
Irish
2 entries- intuigthe adj (able to be comprehended)
- sothuigthe adj (able to be comprehended)
Italian
1 entries- comprensibile adj (able to be comprehended)
Japanese
1 entries- 理解できる adj (able to be comprehended)
Korean
1 entries- 이해할 수 있다 adj (able to be comprehended)
Macedonian
1 entries- разбирлив adj (able to be comprehended)
Manx
1 entries- so-hoiggal adj (able to be comprehended)
Māori
1 entries- mahuki adj (able to be comprehended)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- begripelig adj (able to be comprehended)
- forståelig adj (able to be comprehended)
Polish
1 entries- zrozumiały adj (able to be comprehended)
Portuguese
1 entries- compreensível adj (able to be comprehended)
Russian
4 entries- вразуми́тельный adj (able to be comprehended)
- познава́емый adj (able to be comprehended)
- поня́тный adj (able to be comprehended)
- постижи́мый adj (able to be comprehended)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- razùmljiv adj (able to be comprehended)
- разу̀мљив adj (able to be comprehended)
Slovak
2 entries- pochopiteľný adj (able to be comprehended)
- zrozumiteľný adj (able to be comprehended)
Slovene
1 entries- razumljiv adj (able to be comprehended)
Spanish
2 entries- comprehensible (disused) adj (able to be comprehended)
- comprensible adj (able to be comprehended)
Swedish
2 entries- begriplig adj (able to be comprehended)
- förståelig adj (able to be comprehended)
Turkish
1 entries- anlaşılabilir adj (able to be comprehended)
Ukrainian
1 entries- зрозумі́лий adj (able to be comprehended)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
On Tatoeba, there are a lot of grammatically correct but strange sentences, hardly comprehensible out of context.
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A dictionary makes words comprehensible.
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Legal terminology is not comprehensible to most laypeople.
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