"understandable" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-understandable.wav Forms: more understandable [comparative], most understandable [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English understondable, equivalent to understand + -able. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|understondable}} Middle English understondable, {{af|en|understand|-able}} understand + -able Head templates: {{en-adj}} understandable (comparative more understandable, superlative most understandable)
  1. Capable of being understood; comprehensible. Synonyms (capable of being understood): comprehensible Translations (capable of being understood): kuptueshëm (Albanian), مَفْهُوم (mafhūm) (Arabic), հասկանալի (haskanali) (Armenian), зразуме́лы (zrazumjély) (Belarusian), разбира́ем (razbiráem) (Bulgarian), comprensible (Catalan), 可懂的 (kědǒng de) (Chinese Mandarin), 可以理解的 (kěyǐ lǐjiě de) (Chinese Mandarin), pochopitelný (Czech), srozumitelný (Czech), forståelig (Danish), begribelig (Danish), begrijpelijk (Dutch), komprenebla (Esperanto), ymmärrettävä (Finnish), compréhensible (French), comprenable [Canada] (French), verständlich (German), begreifbar (German), érthető (Hungarian), skiljanlegur (Icelandic), skilmerkilegur (Icelandic), sothuigthe (Irish), intuigthe (Irish), comprensibile (Italian), 理解できる (rikai dekiru) (alt: りかいできる) (Japanese), 이해할 수 있다 (ihaehal su itda) (Korean), разбирлив (razbirliv) (Macedonian), so-hoiggal (Manx), woahwoa (Mokilese), áddehahtti (Northern Sami), forståelig (Norwegian Bokmål), begripelig (Norwegian Bokmål), lettfattelig (Norwegian Bokmål), forståeleg (Norwegian Nynorsk), zrozumiały (Polish), compreensível (Portuguese), entendível (Portuguese), поня́тный (ponjátnyj) (Russian), разу̀мљив [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), razùmljiv [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), pochopiteľný (Slovak), zrozumiteľný (Slovak), razumljiv (Slovene), entendible (Spanish), förståelig (Swedish), anlaşılabilir (Turkish), kavranabilir (Turkish), kavranılabilir (Turkish), зрозумі́лий (zrozumílyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-understandable-en-adj-JsEUCYFg Disambiguation of 'capable of being understood': 85 15 Disambiguation of 'capable of being understood': 85 15
  2. Capable of being accepted or excused under the circumstances. Synonyms (capable of being accepted): acceptable, excusable Translations (capable of being accepted or excused): հասկանալի (haskanali) (Armenian), comprensible (Catalan), ymmärrettävä (Finnish), verständlich (German), érthető (Hungarian), méltányolható (Hungarian), elfogadható (Hungarian), tekintetbe vehető (Hungarian), elnézhető (english: excusable) (Hungarian), megbocsátható (Hungarian), perdonabile (Italian), comprensibile (Italian), forståelig (Norwegian Bokmål), tilgivelig (Norwegian Bokmål), compreensível (Portuguese), прие́млемый (prijémlemyj) (Russian), förståelig (Swedish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: understandableness, understandably Related terms: understandability

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.