prehensible

[ pri-hen-suh-buhl ]

adjective

1. able to be seized or grasped.

Word History and Origins

Origin of prehensible¹

1825–35; < Latin prehēns ( us ) ( prehension ) + -ible

Example Sentences

I perceive very well the resistance of this prehensible organ.

From Project Gutenberg

By partitioning the universe into different com­prehensible sizes, we learn that the laws of physics that work best aren’t necessarily the same for all processes.

From Scientific American

The process may sound dehumanized, but in one hospital where the computer specializes in peptic ulcers, a survey of patients showed that they found the machine "more friendly, polite, relaxing and com- prehensible" than the average physician.

From Time Magazine Archive

He argues gently but profoundly that human lives are really composed of details as mysterious in their power as the force that tugs the turtles; the most dramatic adventure can unfold as a series of petty and incom prehensible inconveniences.

From Time Magazine Archive

If Wagner is the most difficult mountain to be observed distinctly, not only due to the lyric vapour in which he so often drowns, but also because of his non prehensible morphology, the contours of the Venusberg, one of the last mountains ascended by Wagner, . . . are much more difficult to delimit.

From Time Magazine Archive