understandable
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1.6
- adjective
- /ˌʌndərˈstændəbl/
:
comprensible
- The instructions were clear and understandable, making it easy for everyone to follow.
- easily understandable
- in understandable terms
- clear and understandable
So to make it very simple and understandable for most people,
- So to make it very simple and understandable for most people,
- So it's it's understandable if one's head is spinning.
- But it is a perfectly understandable emotion.
- There's a, there's A and there's an understandable obsession with safety.
- Let let us say right and there's understandable reasons why that's the case.
- Yeah, informally, I think whatever works to make it understandable is good.
- But it's understandable if you have some doubts.
- Of course they have the right to March, and it's understandable to want to have one last MUGA.
- Once again, I have to say it's a very understandable grievance.
- And I think everyone has a very understandable perspective.
- I think it's a very understandable question.
- And at one level, this is very understandable.
Examples
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Once again, I have to say it's a very understandable grievance.
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And all that stuff is understandable if you just write down a simple model like this.
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So to make it very simple and understandable for most people,
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So it's again, you know, understandable why it would be that group.
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I think it's a very understandable question.
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And I think everyone has a very understandable perspective.
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But it's understandable if you have some doubts.
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But it is a perfectly understandable emotion.
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You know, I think Diane's surprise at her own condition is understandable to a lot of people.
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Businesses could be set up within a rule structure that was readily understandable to Westerners.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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1.0
Easy to understand and not confusing
45
3.4
A text or idea easy to understand
27
1.0
Simple and clear so most people can know what it means quickly
11
3.7
Easy to understand
8
4.4
Easy to hear and understand
7
3.8
Easy to understand
4
3.9
Easy to understand and remember
4
4.6
Something you can learn or understand
2
5.5
Something people can understand because there is a clear reason
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3.8
Easy to understand or learn
1
5.7
Able to be understood or explained
1
3.7
Easy to read or understand
1
4.9
Easy to understand
1
7.5
Most people can understand it easily
Easy to understand
Easy to understand
Easy to read because words use regular letter sounds
Someone can understand or solve it if they try
Easy to understand and keep up with online posts
Antonyms
How Understandable
Surface Forms
Morphology
understandable = understand (transparent) = understand + able
The adjective is directly formed from the verb 'understand' with the productive suffix '-able', so its meaning is easily derived by learners who know 'understand'.
Etymology
Understandable is built from the simple parts under and stand, where long ago under could mean 'close to' and stand means 'to stand'. So to understand was to 'stand close to' an idea, and understandable means something is clear enough to 'be understood'.