understandable

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adjective

understandable (comparative more understandable, superlative most understandable)

1. Capable of being understood; comprehensible.
2. Capable of being accepted or excused under the circumstances.

Synonyms

• (capable of being understood): comprehensible, understandable; See also Thesaurus:comprehensible
• (capable of being accepted): acceptable, excusable

Antonyms

• (capable of being understood): incomprehensible, unfathomable; See also Thesaurus:incomprehensible
• (capable of being accepted): inexcusable, unacceptable

Derived terms

• understandableness
• understandably

Related terms

• understandability

Translations

capable of being understood

• Albanian: kuptueshëm (sq)
• Arabic: مَفْهُوم (ar) (mafhūm)
• Armenian: հասկանալի (hy) (haskanali)
• Bulgarian: разбираем (bg) (razbiraem)
• Catalan: comprensible (ca)
• Czech: pochopitelný (cs), srozumitelný (cs)
• Danish: forståelig, begribelig
• Dutch: begrijpelijk (nl)
• Esperanto: komprenebla
• Finnish: ymmärrettävä (fi)
• French: compréhensible (fr), (Canada) comprenable (fr)
• German: verständlich (de)
• Hungarian: érthető (hu)
• Icelandic: skiljanlegur (is), skilmerkilegur (is)
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• Irish: sothuigthe, intuigthe
• Italian: comprensibile (it)
• Manx: so-hoiggal
• Northern Sami: áddehahtti
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forståelig (no), begripelig, lettfattelig

  Nynorsk: forståeleg

• Polish: zrozumiały (pl) m
• Portuguese: compreensível (pt), entendível (pt)
• Russian: поня́тный (ru) (ponjátnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: razumljiv (sh)
• Spanish: entendible (es)
• Swedish: förståelig (sv)
• Turkish: anlaşılabilir, kavranabilir, kavranılabilir

capable of being accepted or excused

• Armenian: հասկանալի (hy) (haskanali)
• Catalan: comprensible (ca)
• Finnish: ymmärrettävä (fi)
• German: verständlich (de)
• Hungarian: érthető (hu), méltányolható, elfogadható (hu), tekintetbe vehető, (excusable) elnézhető, megbocsátható (hu)
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• Italian: perdonabile (it), comprensibile (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forståelig (no), tilgivelig

• Portuguese: compreensível (pt)
• Russian: прие́млимо (prijémlimo)
• Swedish: förståelig (sv)