Word Meanings - INTELLIGIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Capable of being understood or comprehended; as, an intelligible account or description; intelligible pronunciation, writing, etc. The intelligible forms of ancient poets. Coleridge. Syn. -- Comprehensible; perspicuous; plain; clear.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INTELLIGIBLE)

• Clear \adj Open
• pure
• bright
• transparent
• free
• disencumbered
• disentangled
• disengaged
• absolved
• acquitted
• serene
• unclouded
• evident
• apparent
• distinct
• manifest
• conspicuous
• unobstructed
• plain
• obvious
• intelligible
• lucid
• Lucid
• Shining
• resplendent
• Incident
• luminous
• clear
• trans parent
• crystalline
• pellucid
• rational
• perspicuous
• orderly
• limpid
• lucent
• easily under
• stood

Related words: (words related to INTELLIGIBLE)

• UNDERDOER
  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• PARENTHETIC; PARENTHETICAL
  1. Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark. A parenthetical observation of Moses himself. Hales. 2. Using or containing parentheses.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• UNDERPLOT
  1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
• PARENTHESIS
  One of the curved lines which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase. Note: Parenthesis, in technical grammar, is that part of a sentence which is inclosed within the recognized sign; but many phrases and sentences which are punctuated by commas
• UNDERNICENESS
  A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
• UNDERDOLVEN
  p. p. of Underdelve.
• UNDERSOIL
  The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
• SHINTIYAN; SHINTYAN
  A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Mohammedan countries.
• DISTINCTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. The soul's . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth. 2. Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated
• RATIONALIZATION
  The act or process of rationalizing.
• TRANSCEND
  1. To climb; to mount. 2. To be transcendent; to excel.
• UNDERPROP
  To prop from beneath; to put a prop under; to support; to uphold. Underprop the head that bears the crown. Fenton.
• UNDERNIME
  1. To receive; to perceive. He the savor undernom Which that the roses and the lilies cast. Chaucer. 2. To reprove; to reprehend. Piers Plowman.
• TRANSMUTATIONIST
  One who believes in the transmutation of metals or of species.
• PARENTATION
  Something done or said in honor of the dead; obsequies. Abp. Potter.
• UNDERCREST
  To support as a crest; to bear. Shak.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
  A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
• DILUCIDATION
  The act of making clear. Boyle.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.