comprehensible

comprehensible
    adj 1: capable of being comprehended or understood; "an idea
           comprehensible to the average mind" [syn:
           {comprehensible}, {comprehendible}] [ant:
           {incomprehensible}, {uncomprehensible}]
    

Comprehensible \Com"pre*hen"si*ble\, a. [L. comprehensibilis:
   cf. F. compre['e]hensible.]
   1. Capable of being comprehended, included, or comprised.
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            Lest this part of knowledge should seem to any not
            comprehensible by axiom, we will set down some heads
            of it.                                --Bacon.
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   2. Capable of being understood; intelligible; conceivable by
      the mind.
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            The horizon sets the bounds . . . between what is
            and what is not comprehensible by us. --Locke.
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27 Moby Thesaurus words for "comprehensible":
      appreciable, apprehensible, articulate, ascertainable, cognizable,
      conceivable, discernible, discoverable, distinguishable,
      easily understood, easy to understand, exoteric, fathomable,
      graspable, intelligible, knowable, lucid, luminous, penetrable,
      perceptible, plumbable, prehensible, readable, recognizable,
      scrutable, seizable, understandable