apprehensible

[ ap-ri-hen-suh-buhl ]

adjective

1. capable of being understood.

apprehensible

/ ˌæprɪˈhɛnsɪbəl /

adjective

1. capable of being comprehended or grasped mentally

Derived Forms

• ˌappreˌhensiˈbility, noun
• ˌappreˈhensibly, adverb

Other Words From

• appre·hensi·bili·ty noun
• appre·hensi·bly adverb
• nonap·pre·hensi·bili·ty noun
• nonap·pre·hensi·ble adjective
• unap·pre·hensi·ble adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of apprehensible¹

1625–35; < Late Latin apprehēnsibilis < Latin apprehēns ( us ) grasped (past participle of apprehendere ), equivalent to apprehend- ( apprehend ) + -t ( us ) past participle suffix + -ibilis -ible

Example Sentences

CNN, like all televised media, specializes in nearsighted news, favoring big, easily apprehensible images and storylines.

From Slate

One of the best parts of “Ghettoside” is a wonderfully apprehensible crash course in legal anthropology.

From Washington Post

Some recent psychoanalytic commentators in effect assent to Flugel’s observation while adding a positive dimension to it, exploring the many ways in which the circulation of clothing among women—shopping, dressing, admiring, evaluating—constitutes a concretely apprehensible and “highly ambivalent” form of object relations expressive of the emotions rooted in the earliest relationship to the mother—“love, hate and envy.”

From Salon

In order that it may pass from the region of the invisible into that of apprehensible reality, it needs a medium that may connect together both orders, the invisible order of the supernatural and the order of historical manifestation.

From Project Gutenberg

We might be disposed to regard the sacraments as this medium, because they are the instruments by which grace is conferred, in a manner apprehensible through the senses.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

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• coherent
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