Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being understood.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being apprehended or understood; possible to be conceived by the human intellect.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being apprehended or conceived.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective which can be
apprehended (usually in the sense of being understood)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being apprehended or understood
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Examples
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And then suddenly I couldn't do that anymore, couldn't make those approximations that make something incredibly complex and contradictory more easily apprehensible.
won't make trouble. don't need no fuss. but i'm wounded, old, and i'm treacherous. aliettedb 2010
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According to the fathers, this is a kingdom, a power, a glory and a quality of life that is potentially no less apprehensible to us now.
Scott Cairns: The Christian and the Community: A Relationship in God's Image Scott Cairns 2010
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However much it grasps metaphorically at a less tangible if still apprehensible object of our experience of fiction, to speak of "quality of vision" does not adequately account for the concrete achievements of writers as stylists.
Translated Texts 2010
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According to the fathers, this is a kingdom, a power, a glory and a quality of life that is potentially no less apprehensible to us now.
Scott Cairns: The Christian and the Community: A Relationship in God's Image Scott Cairns 2010
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Whatever the Truth turns out to be, it is not a comprehensible body of knowledge, even if that Truth is made manifest and is revealed in the apprehensible Body of Christ.
Scott Cairns: The Annunciation Of Mary: Ambiguity, Perplexity And Truth Scott Cairns 2010
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Weaving numerous elements together, some esoteric, others fairly apprehensible, AW takes us on a dreamlike expedition into another culture.
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives – review Philip French 2010
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Whatever the Truth turns out to be, it is not a comprehensible body of knowledge, even if that Truth is made manifest and is revealed in the apprehensible Body of Christ.
Scott Cairns: The Annunciation of Mary: Ambiguity, Perplexity and Truth Scott Cairns 2010
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Whatever the Truth turns out to be, it is not a comprehensible body of knowledge, even if that Truth is made manifest and is revealed in the apprehensible Body of Christ.
Scott Cairns: The Annunciation of Mary: Ambiguity, Perplexity and Truth Scott Cairns 2010
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She plays a lot with language, it seems, and she appears to favor a less fluid syntax that is rooted in a quest to make quite logical and apprehensible the language of Herbert.
Translating Again : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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But there is a more easily apprehensible principle that underlies "equal protection," and that is, no distinction on account of race.
Losing Things 2009
Dan337 commented on the word apprehensible
This is frequently confused with “reprehensible”, e.g.:
August 23, 2010