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understandable

adjectivecommon in dialogue

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Capable of being understood; comprehensible.

adjective

  1. 1

    Capable of being understood; comprehensible.

  2. 2

    Capable of being accepted or excused under the circumstances; permissible.

Etymology

From Middle English understondable, equivalent to understand + -able.

Forms

comparative
more understandable
superlative
most understandable
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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).