Meanings
comparative more comprehensible · superlative most comprehensible
- Able to be comprehended.
Synonyms: apprehensible, clear, intelligible, understandable, limpid, explainable, explicable, explicatable
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveAble to be comprehended.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivecapable of being comprehended or understood
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
- Proto-Italic*kom
- Proto-Italic*kom-
- Latincon-
- Proto-Indo-European*per-
- Proto-Indo-European*preh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*préh₂i?
- Proto-Italic*prai
- Proto-Italic*prai-
- Proto-Indo-European*gʰed-
- Proto-Indo-European*gʰnédti
- Proto-Italic*hendō
- Proto-Italic*praiɣendō
- Latinprehendō
- Latincomprehendō
- Latincomprehēnsibilis
- Englishcomprehensible
Borrowed from Latin comprehēnsibilis.
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic مَفْهُوم
- مَفْهُوم (mafhūm)able to be comprehended
Bulgarian разбира́ем
- разбира́ем (razbiráem)able to be comprehended
Catalan comprensible
- comprensibleable to be comprehended
Chinese Mandarin 可懂的
- 可懂的 (kědǒng de)able to be comprehended
Czech pochopitelný, srozumitelný
- pochopitelnýable to be comprehended
- srozumitelnýable to be comprehended
Danish begribelig, forståelig
- begribeligable to be comprehended
- forståeligable to be comprehended
Dutch begrijpelijk
- begrijpelijkable to be comprehended
Finnish ymmärrettävä
- ymmärrettäväable to be comprehended
French compréhensible
- compréhensibleable to be comprehended
German begreifbar, fassbar
- begreifbarable to be comprehended
- fassbarable to be comprehended
- verständlichable to be comprehended
Hungarian felfogható, érthető
- felfoghatóable to be comprehended
- érthetőable to be comprehended
Indonesian dapat dimengerti, terpahamkan
- dapat dimengertiable to be comprehended
- terpahamkanable to be comprehended
- yang dpt dipahamiable to be comprehended
- yang dpt dimengertiable to be comprehended
Irish sothuigthe, intuigthe
- sothuigtheable to be comprehended
- intuigtheable to be comprehended
Italian comprensibile
- comprensibileable to be comprehended
Japanese 理解できる
- 理解できる (rikai dekiru)able to be comprehended
Korean 이해할 수 있다
- 이해할 수 있다 (ihaehal su itda)able to be comprehended
Māori mahuki
- mahukiable to be comprehended
Norwegian Bokmål forståelig, begripelig
- forståeligable to be comprehended
- begripeligable to be comprehended
Polish zrozumiały
- zrozumiałyable to be comprehended
Portuguese compreensível
- compreensívelable to be comprehended
Russian поня́тный, постижи́мый
- поня́тный (ponjátnyj)able to be comprehended
- постижи́мый (postižímyj)able to be comprehended
- вразуми́тельный (vrazumítelʹnyj)able to be comprehended
- познава́емый (poznavájemyj)able to be comprehended
Slovak pochopiteľný, zrozumiteľný
- pochopiteľnýable to be comprehended
- zrozumiteľnýable to be comprehended
Spanish comprensible, comprehensible (disused)
- comprensibleable to be comprehended
- comprehensible (disused)able to be comprehended
Swedish begriplig, förståelig
- begripligable to be comprehended
- förståeligable to be comprehended
Turkish anlaşılabilir
- anlaşılabilirable to be comprehended
Ukrainian зрозумі́лий
- зрозумі́лий (zrozumílyj)able to be comprehended
Cite this entry
comprehensible. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/comprehensible
“comprehensible.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/comprehensible. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “comprehensible,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/comprehensible.
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