The fact that educated Americans in general no longer share understandable background knowledge is a chief cause of their inability to communicate effectively.
Source: tatoeba (19002)
Understandable
Synonyms for "understandable" (56 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Adjective(2 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Strong matches (16)
Related words (28)
Adjective(3 words)
intelligibleknowablelaylucidluminousnaturalpenetrableperceptibleplainplumbablepopularprehensiblereadablerecognizablescrutableseizableself-explanatorysimplestraightforwardtransparent
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Adjective(3 words)
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Antonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
2 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
69 translations across 38 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- kuptueshëm adj (capable of being understood)
Arabic
1 entries- مَفْهُوم adj (capable of being understood)
Armenian
2 entries- հասկանալի adj (capable of being understood)
- հասկանալի adj (capable of being accepted or excused)
Belarusian
1 entries- зразуме́лы adj (capable of being understood)
Bulgarian
1 entries- разбира́ем adj (capable of being understood)
Catalan
2 entries- comprensible adj (capable of being understood)
- comprensible adj (capable of being accepted or excused)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 可以理解的 adj (capable of being understood)
- 可懂的 adj (capable of being understood)
Czech
2 entries- pochopitelný adj (capable of being understood)
- srozumitelný adj (capable of being understood)
Danish
2 entries- begribelig adj (capable of being understood)
- forståelig adj (capable of being understood)
Dutch
1 entries- begrijpelijk adj (capable of being understood)
Esperanto
1 entries- komprenebla adj (capable of being understood)
Finnish
2 entries- ymmärrettävä adj (capable of being understood)
- ymmärrettävä adj (capable of being accepted or excused)
French
2 entries- comprenable adj (capable of being understood)
- compréhensible adj (capable of being understood)
German
3 entries- begreifbar adj (capable of being understood)
- verständlich adj (capable of being understood)
- verständlich adj (capable of being accepted or excused)
Hungarian
4 entries- elfogadható adj (capable of being accepted or excused)
- elnézhető adj (capable of being accepted or excused)
- megbocsátható adj (capable of being accepted or excused)
- méltányolható adj (capable of being accepted or excused)
Icelandic
2 entries- skiljanlegur adj (capable of being understood)
- skilmerkilegur adj (capable of being understood)
Irish
2 entries- intuigthe adj (capable of being understood)
- sothuigthe adj (capable of being understood)
Italian
3 entries- comprensibile adj (capable of being understood)
- comprensibile adj (capable of being accepted or excused)
- perdonabile adj (capable of being accepted or excused)
Japanese
1 entries- 理解できる adj (capable of being understood)
Korean
1 entries- 이해할 수 있다 adj (capable of being understood)
Macedonian
1 entries- разбирлив adj (capable of being understood)
Manx
1 entries- so-hoiggal adj (capable of being understood)
Mokilese
1 entries- woahwoa adj (capable of being understood)
Northern Sami
1 entries- áddehahtti adj (capable of being understood)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- begripelig adj (capable of being understood)
- forståelig adj (capable of being understood)
- forståelig adj (capable of being accepted or excused)
- lettfattelig adj (capable of being understood)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- forståeleg adj (capable of being understood)
Polish
1 entries- zrozumiały adj (capable of being understood)
Portuguese
3 entries- compreensível adj (capable of being understood)
- compreensível adj (capable of being accepted or excused)
- entendível adj (capable of being understood)
Romanian
1 entries- de înțeles adj (capable of being understood)
Russian
2 entries- поня́тный adj (capable of being understood)
- прие́млемый adj (capable of being accepted or excused)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- razùmljiv adj (capable of being understood)
- разу̀мљив adj (capable of being understood)
Slovak
2 entries- pochopiteľný adj (capable of being understood)
- zrozumiteľný adj (capable of being understood)
Slovene
1 entries- razumljiv adj (capable of being understood)
Spanish
1 entries- entendible adj (capable of being understood)
Swedish
2 entries- förståelig adj (capable of being understood)
- förståelig adj (capable of being accepted or excused)
Turkish
3 entries- anlaşılabilir adj (capable of being understood)
- kavranabilir adj (capable of being understood)
- kavranılabilir adj (capable of being understood)
Ukrainian
1 entries- зрозумі́лий adj (capable of being understood)
Zyphe
1 entries- fiang adj (capable of being understood)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Our smile, which is understandable in the context of Japanese culture, sometimes causes a lot of confusion and is notorious among foreign people as a mysterious smile.
Source: tatoeba (281798)
His anger is understandable.
Source: tatoeba (285212)
She failed the exam, which was understandable.
Source: tatoeba (314492)
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