intelligible

1. 1.

   capable of being apprehended or understood

   Synonymsapprehensiblegraspableperceivableunderstandable

   Similarcomprehensible
2. 2.

   well articulated or enunciated, and loud enough to be heard distinctly

   “intelligible pronunciation”

   Antonymsunintelligible

Questions about intelligible

What does intelligible mean?

intelligible means "capable of being apprehended or understood". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in intelligible?

intelligible has 5 syllables: in-tel-li-gi-ble. The stress falls on "tel". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈtɛlədʒəbəl/.

What is another word for intelligible?

Close synonyms include apprehensible, graspable, perceivable, understandable. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of intelligible?

The recorded antonyms are unintelligible.

Is intelligible a common word?

intelligible is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with intelligible?

1 word rhymes with intelligible. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.