Definition of "comprehensible" [com•pre•hen•si•ble]

• Readily comprehended or understood; intelligible. (adjective)

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• "He was not the first to publish a detailed survey of architecture, but his treatise was written in comprehensible language, relatively unencumbered by philosophical verbiage and richly detailed with how-to instruction."
• "Of course, it needs to remain comprehensible to readers in 2010, which hobbles me considerably."
• "This phenomenon is easily comprehensible from a physiological standpoint, but to the man who makes the discovery for the first time, it is a most wonderful thing."