Intelligible: meaning, example and synonyms
Intelligibleadj. Able to be understood; clear enough to comprehend.
Example
The recording was barely intelligible, but linguists could still make out enough words to identify the speaker's regional dialect.
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Synonyms
- understandable, comprehensible, clear, coherent
- Antonyms
- unintelligible, incomprehensible, garbled, unclear
- Memory tip
- Intelligible = your intelligence can make sense of it.
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Check yourself: Intelligible in context
After years of practice, the parrot's speech became surprisingly ______, though it still mixed up the order of words.
Answer: intelligible. Speech that can be understood despite some errors is intelligible. Exorbitant, slumberous and notional don't describe how understandable speech is.
The physicist rewrote her lecture to make it ______ to high school students, replacing equations with everyday examples.
Answer: intelligible. Replacing equations with everyday examples makes the lecture understandable. Adept describes skill, not clarity of a lecture.