as in accessible
capable of being understood
with understandable pain and anger, the victim's family lashed out at the convicted murderer
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Recent Examples of understandable
The animating impulse behind Proposition 50 is understandable.
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Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2025
Gary’s desperation throughout the episode is understandable.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
Each group had understandable, albeit very different reasons for their respective positions.
—Big Think, 6 Nov. 2025
The reasons why some species succeed in a new area as climate changes, and are able to adapt and thrive, are also understandable only by studying many genomes—of the creatures that succeed, as well as the ones that don’t.
—Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Nov. 2025
Rachel’s anxiety over the situation and the potential implications were understandable and something many Americans in her position would have likely shared.
—Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
O’Neil was in advanced discussions over taking on a second stint in charge in the Midlands in a move that prompted inevitable, predictable and understandable fury in some quarters.
—Steve Madeley, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Advertisement To many, including Tim’s former coach and longtime friend Urban Meyer, this both-sidesism seems like understandable pragmatism.
—Belinda Luscombe, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
Still not quite right, though understandable.
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for understandable
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The founders argue that automation should be accessible to smaller operators, including neighborhood bars and private event spaces.—
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For everyday cooking, a tube makes tomato paste this effective flavor tool in your arsenal even more accessible.—
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Mario Kart has to work as an entry point to gaming, something slow and comprehensible enough for your grandma to pick up.—
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That’s the novelist within the essayist, who loves a metaphor and senses that a metaphor will tend to be more comprehensible to the general reader than a thousand pages of closely argued Thomas Piketty.—
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The earliest Shaker songs, including ones attributed to Lee, have no intelligible language.—
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Art criticism is about writing, a fundamental way to process that mystery, aiming to discover something at least temporarily intelligible.—
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“Understandable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/understandable. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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