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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
Watching from a perch in the surveillance age, her reticence is understandable.
In the quest for fragments of solace, it’s also perhaps understandable that when tales of bravery are found, they are celebrated unashamedly.
There’s an understandable impulse behind the medical community’s push to test lots of people.
They are making a world so scary and degraded that it's perfectly understandable not to want to inflict it on a child.
“Everyone’s a little bit high-strung, which is understandable,” said Sara Grimaldi, 22, who has been working on youth voter engagement for a feminist group throughout the campaign.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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