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understandable

un·der·stand·a·ble

understandable

 
 
pronunciation:
uhn dr staen d bl
features:
Word Combinations (adjective)
part of speech: adjective
definition 1: able to be understood; comprehensible.
The translation of the article was so poor that it was not understandable.
 
definition 2: able to be tolerated or sympathized with.
Not having any friends here yet, it's understandable that he misses his old school.
Word Combinations  About this feature
adverb + (adj.)understandable barely, certainly, completely, culturally, easily, entirely, perfectly, perhaps, quite, readily, somewhat, therefore, thoroughly, totally
(adj.)understandable + noun affection, apprehension, circumstance, collapse, coming, complexity, concern, context, desire, fear, manner, mistake, outrage, perspective, preservation, public, reaction, reason, reluctance, reprisal, resentment, resistance, response, sensitivity, sentiment, skepticism, standpoint, suspicion, tendency, term, unwillingness, wish  [See all][See only the most frequent]
derivations: understandably (adv.), understandability (n.)