comprehensible
adjective
com·pre·hen·si·ble
ˌkäm-pri-ˈhen(t)-sə-bəl 
-prē-
: capable of being comprehended : intelligible
a comprehensible explanation
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a book that makes the subject of longitude comprehensible to most laymen
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Mario Kart has to work as an entry point to gaming, something slow and comprehensible enough for your grandma to pick up.
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Ryan Gaur, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2025
That’s the novelist within the essayist, who loves a metaphor and senses that a metaphor will tend to be more comprehensible to the general reader than a thousand pages of closely argued Thomas Piketty.
—Zadie Smith, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
The idea is to make worker feedback less intimidating for companies by turning it into easily comprehensible data and action items.
—Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2025
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Ryan Gaur, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2025
That’s the novelist within the essayist, who loves a metaphor and senses that a metaphor will tend to be more comprehensible to the general reader than a thousand pages of closely argued Thomas Piketty.
—Zadie Smith, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
The idea is to make worker feedback less intimidating for companies by turning it into easily comprehensible data and action items.
—Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 20 Aug. 2025
Crosser, going into detail comprehensible only to the network-savvy attendees, laid out all the steps Zoom may go through trying to connect from within a highly secure network.
—PC Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
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“Comprehensible.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/comprehensible. Accessed 26 Nov. 2025.
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