understandable

1. 1.

   capable of being apprehended or understood

   Synonymsapprehensibleintelligiblegraspableperceivable

   Similarcomprehensible

Questions about understandable

What does understandable mean?

understandable means "capable of being apprehended or understood".

How many syllables are in understandable?

understandable has 5 syllables: un-der-stan-da-ble. The stress falls on "stan". In IPA it is /ˌʌndɚˈstændəbəl/.

What is another word for understandable?

Close synonyms include apprehensible, intelligible, graspable, perceivable. 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.

Is understandable a common word?

understandable is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.