decipherable

Examples

• All

• The message—and despite the over-the-top wordplay, there is a very serious message in this text—is decipherable only to those who are part of Vitanza's very distinct discourse community.

  Academic text (2001)

• Current technology has enabled researchers to double the number of decipherable characters and translate some of the mechanism's inscriptions.

  Academic text (2007)

• In time, his writings were decipherable.

  Academic text (1999)

• This procedure makes the encrypted message more easily decipherable by perpetrators.

  Academic text (1990)

• The only decipherable element on the parchment was a drawing at the top, comparable to a letterhead.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Traces of lifestyles abandoned millions of years ago are still decipherable in "fossil genes" retained in modern DNA.

  Academic text (2006)

• The graffiti on the desktops is illegible after the summer cleaning, but a few initials and two full names, Maria and Martin, are still decipherable.

  Fiction book (1990)

• If Lope is not writing a historically faithful, archaeological piece about events in the fifteenth century, he must be sending decipherable messages to his contemporary audience.

  Academic text (1991)

• The ancient inscriptions on the stone were finally decipherable after months of study.

• With the new software, the previously complex code is now decipherable by novice programmers.

Synonyms

C

clear

vsdecipherable

∞ 1.0

Easy to understand and not confusing

adds the idea that the item can be physically read or decoded

U

understandable

vsdecipherable

171 1.6

Clear and easy to see what it means or why someone feels that way

places extra emphasis on being actually readable or solvable

A

accessible

vsdecipherable

45 3.4

A text or idea easy to understand

is neutral about audience and stresses the ability to be read or solved

R

readable

vsdecipherable

26 2.0

Easy to see and understand because the letters are clear

focuses on being understood or decoded, not only neat writing

L

legible

vsdecipherable

11 3.1

Clear enough to read easily, like handwriting or printed text

covers both visual legibility and general understandability rather than only clarity

C

comprehensible

vsdecipherable

11 3.7

Easy to understand

highlights the ability to be read or deciphered as an extra aspect

I

intelligible

vsdecipherable

8 4.4

Easy to hear and understand

stresses being able to be read or worked out, not only clarity

D

digestible

vsdecipherable

4 3.9

Easy to understand and remember

is about being able to be read or figured out, not just easy to absorb

K

knowable

vsdecipherable

4 4.6

Something you can learn or understand

stresses practical readability or solvability rather than abstract knowability

I

interpretable

vsdecipherable

1 5.7

Able to be understood or explained

is about plain readability or being solvable rather than explanation methods

G

graspable

vsdecipherable

1 3.8

Easy to understand or learn

focuses more on readable or decodable quality than just ease

P

parsable

vsdecipherable

• Specialized

1 6.0

Easy to read and understand for a person or a computer

emphasizes plain understandability rather than formal analyzability

A

apprehensible

vsdecipherable

1 7.5

Most people can understand it easily

adds that the item can also be read or decoded if needed

F

fathomable

vsdecipherable

1 4.9

Easy to understand

implies clearer immediate readability or direct decodability rather than delayed insight

D

decodable

vsdecipherable

4.0

Easy to read because words use regular letter sounds

is about being understandable regardless of whether simple rules apply

C

comprehendible

vsdecipherable

3.7

Easy to understand

adds the idea of being readable or decodable as well as graspable

Antonyms

I

indecipherable

8 8.8

Too hard to read or understand

How Decipherable

obvious

∞ 1.0

readable

26 2.0

decipherable

1 3.7

clear

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology