Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being deciphered or interpreted.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being deciphered.

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  • adjective That can be deciphered, understood or comprehended.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective easily deciphered

Etymologies

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decipher +‎ -able

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Examples

  • The idea that s. 8 protects an individuals’s privacy in garbage until the last unpaid bill rots into dust, or the incriminating letters turn into muck and are no longer decipherable, is to my mind too extravagant to contemplate.

    SCC: No Privacy Interest in Things We Throw Out : Law is Cool 2009

  • "Hef you any aguaintunce off Mitster Fear?" he inquired, in return, with no expression decipherable either upon his Gargantuan face or in his heavily enfolded eyes.

    The Conquest of Canaan Booth Tarkington 1907

  • ` ` Hef you any aguaintunce off Mitster Fear? '' he inquired, in return, with no expression decipherable either upon his Gargantuan face or in his heavily enfolded eyes.

    The Conquest of Canaan 1905

  • Kolchak's answer was described as clear when "decipherable," and to his credit, he frankly declined to forestall the will of the

    The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Emile Joseph Dillon 1894

  • His votes aren't rolling in on any kind of decipherable time interval votes rolled in at exactly 5, 25, and 45 seconds into the minue though

    Lookout Landing 2008

  • Somehow makes words such as “strategery” look quite learned – not to mention decipherable.

    Steele to Democrats: You have the votes, and you won, remember? - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

  • It's scratchy but decipherable and pretty damn cool to listen to.

    The reason why you shouldnt say the reason why 2010

  • Except that Bainbridge was never quite that neat a writer; elliptical, mysterious and not too hung up on the indispensability of closure, her novels quite frequently seemed to lack an easily decipherable resolution, and be all the more powerful for it.

    The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge – review 2011

  • Brought up from the wreck was a journal, so torn and mushed and pulped by the sea-water, with ink so run about, that scarcely any of it was decipherable.

    Chapter 15 2010

  • It could perhaps be argued that too many novels do still imply a "decipherable universe" -- decipherable insofar as it can be adequately rendered through the protocols of realism -- but most literary fiction is not so tied to a 19th century worldview as to portray human experience as "stable, coherent, continuous, unequivocal."

    Experimental Fiction 2010

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