Meaning

1 senses
  1. Capable of being understood; clear to the mind.

    Italian and Spanish are partially mutually intelligible languages.

    einleuchtend, verständlich

    вразуми́тельныйvrazumítelʹnyj, поня́тныйponjátnyj, умопостига́емыйumopostigájemyj

    capable of being apprehended or understood

Examples

52 sentences
  1. The meaning of the words is intelligible.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  2. Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

    ruРазъясниться - убийственно для философии.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · Scott · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  3. God is an intelligible sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · darinmex · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  4. Are the languages mutually intelligible?

    CC0 · Tatoeba · ddnktr · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem
  5. If you look at the individual letters of a word long enough, it stops becoming intelligible.

    CC BY · Tatoeba · espamatics · C2Open on TatoebaReport a problem

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
capable of being understood:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
capable of being understood:

Origin

From Middle French intelligible, from Old French, from Latin intelligibilis.

From Middle French intelligible, from Old French, from Latin intelligibilis.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

more intelligible, most intelligible
Comparativemore intelligible Lesson
Superlativemost intelligible Lesson

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
intelligible — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto