apprehensible
1
7.5
- adjective
- /ˌæprɪˈhɛnsəbl/
:
comprensible
- Nixon argues that in order to engage with slow violence and bring it to life emotionally, we need to make it "apprehensible to the senses through the work of scientific and imaginative testimony" (10).
- apprehensible to the senses
They're they're apprehensible by us through our our mind.
- They're they're apprehensible by us through our our mind.
Examples
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So there was nothing new about Merrill's progression from poems with apprehensible boundaries to poems whose lack of boundaries was part of their subject.
Academic text (2009) -
That Impressionist pictures took time to see was not a common observation within criticism at the time; for the most part, the new painting was described as instantaneously apprehensible (as it is now).
Academic text (1998) -
These modes isolated relevance and offered it in a reduced and readily apprehensible form.
Academic text (2003) -
When the oracle and the saint spoke so firmly of the need to know oneself, they were assuming that the self was a concept available to all, a single, apprehensible thing.
Academic text (1995) -
As one who is not a literary scholar, I have the impression this might be said of the New Critical doctrine that a great work of literature was apprehensible purely in its own terms, without reference to the culture and society within which it was embedded.
Academic text (2000) -
It self-consciously draws attention to absence, making it tangible and apprehensible through the senses.
Academic text (2006) -
In this manner, the name "CARLOS" represents a single, easily apprehensible sign that condenses within it the entire history of the ancestors' deeds and their importance as exemplars.
Academic text (1998) -
The teacher explained the complex theory in a simple and apprehensible way that everyone could understand.
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The instructions were clear and apprehensible, making it easy for the students to complete the assignment.
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The speech was designed to be apprehensible to all attendees, regardless of their background knowledge on the topic.
Synonyms
171
1.6
Clear and easy to see what it means or why someone feels that way
45
3.4
A text or idea easy to understand
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
1
4.9
Noticeable to a person, like a change or a sound
1
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
8.1
Easy to notice or understand
1
4.9
Easy to understand
1
5.1
Easy to notice or understand
Easy to understand
Easy to understand
Easy to read because words use regular letter sounds
Antonyms
How Understandable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Apprehensible has the root -prehend-, which means 'to grasp' or 'to take', and you can see the same idea in comprehend. So something apprehensible is something you can 'grasp' with your mind, in other words easy to understand.