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TOEFL IELTS BNC: 14873 COCA: 17337

intelligible

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intelligible /ɪnˈtɛləʤəbəl/ adjective
intelligible
/ɪnˈtɛləʤəbəl/
adjective
Learner's definition of INTELLIGIBLE
[more intelligible; most intelligible]
: able to be understood可理解的;明白易懂的
especially : clear enough to be heard, read, etc.清晰的
opposite unintelligible

— intelligibility

/ɪnˌtɛləʤəˈbɪləti/ noun [noncount]

— intelligibly

/ɪnˈtɛləʤəbli/ adverb
TOEFL IELTS BNC: 14873 COCA: 17337

intelligible

adjective

in·​tel·​li·​gi·​ble in-ˈte-lə-jə-bəl How to pronounce intelligible (audio)
1
: capable of being understood or comprehended
jargon intelligible only to the initiated
2
: apprehensible by the intellect only
intelligibility noun
intelligibleness noun
intelligibly adverb

Example Sentences

the ability to make complex concepts intelligible to the average reader Very little of the recording was intelligible.
Recent Examples on the Web Other examples of mutually intelligible dialects being counted as languages include the Czech and Slovak spoken in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Hindi and Urdu of India and Pakistan, and Norwegian and Danish in Norway and Denmark. Anyssa Murphy, The Conversation, 23 May 2022 Campaign strategist James Carville, a character almost too strange for fiction, is reshaped into the still aggressively Southern but more intelligible strategist Richard Jemmons, played by Billy Bob Thornton. Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2022 So whenever Britain emerges from one of its political upheavals, calls emerge for the country to codify its constitution in a single, intelligible document like the United States’. Tom Mctague, The Atlantic, 15 July 2022 The Rohingya have their own language, mutually intelligible with the Chittagonian language spoken in this part of Bangladesh. New York Times, 2 May 2022 The Ryūkyūan languages split from what would become the mainstream Japanese language over 2,000 years ago, and are not mutually intelligible. Anyssa Murphy, The Conversation, 23 May 2022 Following a car crash and severe stroke at age 20, the man, known as Pancho, lost the ability to produce intelligible speech. New York Times, 12 May 2022 The higher power will allow SCUPLS to transmit intelligible voice messages out to 1,000 meters, and the flash-bangs will produce a sound level of up to 165 decibels, the equivalent of standing inside a jet engine. David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 23 May 2022 The information exists, as its near instant assembly into an intelligible pattern after the Buffalo killings and so many others testifies. Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 17 May 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English, from Latin intelligibilis, from intelligere

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2

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The first known use of intelligible was in the 14th century
TOEFL IELTS BNC: 14873 COCA: 17337
intelligible

adjective

VERBS | ADVERB | PREPOSITION VERBSbe易懂become變得易懂make sth, render sth使⋯易懂They do their best to make science intelligible to young children.他們想方設法使科學知識明白易懂,讓小孩子能夠理解。ADVERBfully, perfectly完全可理解easily, readily輕鬆易懂barely幾乎無法理解His reply was barely intelligible.他的回答幾乎讓人聽不懂。mutually可以互相理解Czech and Slovak are separate languages but they are mutually intelligible.捷克語和斯洛伐克語是兩種不同的語言,但可以互相聽懂。PREPOSITIONto對⋯來說可以理解We need an explanation that is readily intelligible to ordinary people.我們需要能讓普通人一聽就懂的解釋。

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