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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Comprehensible \Com"pre*hen"si*ble\, a. [L. comprehensibilis: cf F. compre['e]hensible.] 1. Capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised. Lest this part of knowledge should seem to any not comprehensible by axiom, we will set down some heads of it --Bacon. 2. Capable of being understood; intelligible; conceivable by the mind. The horizon sets the bounds . . . between what is and what is not comprehensible by us --Locke. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: comprehensible adj 1: (of meaning) capable of being penetrated or comprehended [syn: {fathomable}] [ant: {unfathomable}] 2: readily comprehended or understood; "an idea comprehensible to the average mind" [syn: {comprehendible}] [ant: {incomprehensible}] 3: capable of being understood or interpreted; "a comprehensible experience" [syn: {understandable}]
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