Definitionadj. capable of being apprehended or understood
Last update: June 17, 2015
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His seminar was intelligible to many students. [adjective]
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This language is not mutually intelligible with any form of English. [adjective]
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The causality of reason in the intelligible character does not arise or start working at a certain time in producing an effect. [adjective]
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After a short conference, the plan was matured, and rendered more intelligible to the several parties; the different signals were appointed, and the chiefs separated, each to his allotted station. [adjective]
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After which he continued, in a more audible though scarcely more intelligible language: "After the loss of the boy I turned upon the Hurons, as you may judge." [adjective]
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One of their number now called aloud, in words that were far from appalling, though not more intelligible to those for whose ears they were intended, than their expressive yells. [adjective]
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But, let me ask ye, sir, have you been as intelligible to the girl. [adjective]
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Though the figurative language of David was not very intelligible, the sincere and steady expression of his eye, and the glow of his honest countenance, were not easily mistaken. [adjective]
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For when he had been standing a long while thus, chewing the salt cud of marine reflections, he seemed to hear something more intelligible than the sea. [adjective]
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