intelligible
adjective
in·tel·li·gi·ble
in-ˈte-lə-jə-bəl 
1
: capable of being understood or comprehended
jargon intelligible only to the initiated
2
: apprehensible by the intellect only
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Examples of intelligible in a Sentence
the ability to make complex concepts intelligible to the average reader
Very little of the recording was intelligible.
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One of the values at stake in the 2024 election is intelligibility: can the country remain intelligible to itself and to the rest of the world?
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Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 26 June 2024
There arises an insistent demand for economic and social equality -- such a distribution of the social product as can rationally be referred to intelligible principle.
—Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
The official language of Montenegro is Montenegrin, a South Slavic language that is mutually intelligible with Serbian, Albanian, Croatian, and Bosnian.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2024
This leads to a novel conception of the truth and of disinterested ideals in general, which would hardly have been intelligible to previous centuries.
—Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
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Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 26 June 2024
There arises an insistent demand for economic and social equality -- such a distribution of the social product as can rationally be referred to intelligible principle.
—Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
The official language of Montenegro is Montenegrin, a South Slavic language that is mutually intelligible with Serbian, Albanian, Croatian, and Bosnian.
—Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2024
This leads to a novel conception of the truth and of disinterested ideals in general, which would hardly have been intelligible to previous centuries.
—Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
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“Intelligible.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intelligible. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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