intelligible

What it means

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

   Italian and Spanish are partially mutually intelligible languages.

   2 more examples

   Thus the murderer is thought to have poisoned the sources of life and thereby jeopardized the supply of food for himself, and perhaps for others. On this view it is intelligible that a homicide should be shunned and banished the country, to which his presence is a continual menace.

   1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 80

   NBA superstar LeBron James is talking politics again, and this time it’s R-rated. Here’s his barely intelligible, not to mention ungrammatical take on President Trump, in a new ESPN podcast.

   2018 February 15, Laura Ingraham, The Ingraham Angle, via FOX News

   Synonyms: understandable

In a sentence

Italian and Spanish are partially mutually intelligible languages.

Where it comes from

1. Latinintelligibilis
2. Middle Frenchintelligible
3. Englishintelligible

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