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understandable
adjective as in comprehensible
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apprehensible, clear, imaginable, knowable, legible, lucid, plain, readable, unambiguous
adjective as in expected
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adjective as in able to be understood
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acceptable, coherent, comprehensible, intelligible, justifiable, logical, reasonable, recognizable, simple
Example Sentences
"Upset and vulnerable people hit out when they are in pain, and that is entirely understandable," is how one senior government figure put it to me.
"Upset and vulnerable people hit out when they are in pain, and that is entirely understandable," one figure told the BBC.
A measure of skepticism about India’s value as a counterweight to China may be understandable considering the large economic gap between the two Asian neighbors.
Given the aforementioned cost of firing Nuno and paying severance to Postecoglou, it would be understandable if Forest were reluctant to make a big financial commitment to another manager in the same season.
Then as now, Dominguez had the sharp speaking style of a successful prosecutor, and he could break complicated concepts down into understandable terms, colleagues say.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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