Dictionary

understandable en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From Middle English understondable, equivalent to understand + -able.

Meanings

1. Capable of being understood; comprehensible.
2. Capable of being accepted or excused under the circumstances; permissible.
   • The original branch was 5¾ miles long, from Llantrisant to Cowbridge only, but in 1889, the T.V.R. [Taff Vale Railway] obtained powers […] to continue the line for 6½ miles south to the coast at Aberthaw, ostensibly for the purpose of serving the important limestone works there, but one suspects other motives, including an understandable desire on the part of the T.V.R. to put a spoke in the wheel of the oncoming Barry Railway ! 1951 December, T. B. Sands, “Some Railway Byways in the Vale of Glamorgan”, in Railway Magazine, page 838:

Forms

Antonyms

out of bounds · unacceptable · inexcusable · incomprehensible · unfathomable

Deriveds

understandableness · understandably · ununderstandable · nonunderstandable

Relateds

understandability

Synonyms

apprehensible · excusable · acceptable

Translations (69)

ca comprensible (capable of being accepted or excused) · hu elnézhető (capable of being accepted or excused) · ru прие́млемый (capable of being accepted or excused) · tr kavranabilir (capable of being understood) · de verständlich (capable of being understood) · sl razumljiv (capable of being understood) · bg разбира́ем (capable of being understood) · it comprensibile (capable of being understood) · sv förståelig (capable of being accepted or excused) · pl zrozumiały (capable of being understood) · cmn 可懂的 (capable of being understood) · gv so-hoiggal (capable of being understood) · cs pochopitelný (capable of being understood) · zyp fiang (capable of being understood) · is skiljanlegur (capable of being understood) · se áddehahtti (capable of being understood) · fi ymmärrettävä (capable of being understood) · sh разу̀мљив (capable of being understood) · de begreifbar (capable of being understood) · nb tilgivelig (capable of being accepted or excused) · sh razùmljiv (capable of being understood) · es entendible (capable of being understood) · ko 이해할 수 있다 (capable of being understood) · nb forståelig (capable of being understood) · nn forståeleg (capable of being understood) · be зразуме́лы (capable of being understood) · cmn 可以理解的 (capable of being understood) · sv förståelig (capable of being understood) · de verständlich (capable of being accepted or excused) · ga sothuigthe (capable of being understood) · ru поня́тный (capable of being understood) · nl begrijpelijk (capable of being understood) · mk разбирлив (capable of being understood) · hu tekintetbe vehető (capable of being accepted or excused) · pt compreensível (capable of being accepted or excused) · hu megbocsátható (capable of being accepted or excused) · fr compréhensible (capable of being understood) · ro de înțeles (capable of being understood) · fr comprenable (capable of being understood) · is skilmerkilegur (capable of being understood) · hy հասկանալի (capable of being accepted or excused) · it comprensibile (capable of being accepted or excused) · sq kuptueshëm (capable of being understood) · uk зрозумі́лий (capable of being understood) · nb forståelig (capable of being accepted or excused) · fi ymmärrettävä (capable of being accepted or excused) · tr anlaşılabilir (capable of being understood) · pt entendível (capable of being understood) · da forståelig (capable of being understood) · sk zrozumiteľný (capable of being understood) · hu érthető (capable of being accepted or excused) · nb lettfattelig (capable of being understood) · hu elfogadható (capable of being accepted or excused) · ja 理解できる (capable of being understood) · cs srozumitelný (capable of being understood) · ca comprensible (capable of being understood) · hu érthető (capable of being understood) · hy հասկանալի (capable of being understood) · ar مَفْهُوم (capable of being understood) · sk pochopiteľný (capable of being understood) · da begribelig (capable of being understood) · pt compreensível (capable of being understood) · nb begripelig (capable of being understood) · eo komprenebla (capable of being understood) · mkj woahwoa (capable of being understood) · ga intuigthe (capable of being understood) · tr kavranılabilir (capable of being understood) · it perdonabile (capable of being accepted or excused) · hu méltányolható (capable of being accepted or excused)