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It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.
Richard Cobden

Meaning of "intelligible" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD INTELLIGIBLE

From Latin intellegibilis.
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PRONUNCIATION OF INTELLIGIBLE

intelligible  [ɪnˈtɛlɪdʒəbəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INTELLIGIBLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Intelligible is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INTELLIGIBLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Intelligibility

Intelligibility may refer to: ▪ Mutual intelligibility, in linguistics ▪ Intelligibility ▪ Intelligibility ▪ Intelligible principle - a way to interpret delegation in Administrative Law.

Definition of intelligible in the English dictionary

The first definition of intelligible in the dictionary is able to be understood; comprehensible. Other definition of intelligible is capable of being apprehended by the mind or intellect alone. Intelligible is also denoting that metaphysical realm which is accessible to the intellect as opposed to the world of mere phenomena accessible to the senses.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INTELLIGIBLE


bridgable
ˈbrɪdʒəbəl
bridgeable
ˈbrɪdʒəbəl
eligible
ˈɛlɪdʒəbəl
exigible
ˈɛksɪdʒəbəl
gageable
ˈɡeɪdʒəbəl
imageable
ˈɪmɪdʒəbəl
incorrigible
ɪnˈkɒrɪdʒəbəl
ineligible
ɪnˈɛlɪdʒəbəl
knowledgable
ˈnɒlɪdʒəbəl
knowledgeable
ˈnɒlɪdʒəbəl
manageable
ˈmænɪdʒəbəl
marriageable
ˈmærɪdʒəbəl
negligeable
ˈneɡlɪdʒəbəl
negligible
ˈnɛɡlɪdʒəbəl
salvageable
ˈsælvɪdʒəbəl
unbridgeable
ʌnˈbrɪdʒəbəl
unknowledgeable
ʌnˈnɒlɪdʒəbəl
unmanageable
ʌnˈmænɪdʒəbəl
unsalvageable
ʌnˈsælvɪdʒəbəl
voyageable
ˈvɔɪɪdʒəbəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INTELLIGIBLE

intelligence gathering
Intelligence officer
intelligence quotient
Intelligence Service
intelligence test
intelligence work
intelligencer
intelligent
intelligent card
intelligent design
intelligent knowledge-based system
intelligent terminal
intelligential
intelligently
intelligentsia
intelligentzia
intelligibility
intelligibleness
intelligibly

WORDS THAT END LIKE INTELLIGIBLE

accessible
compatible
corrigible
diffrangible
dirigible
flexible
frangible
fungible
illegible
inexpungible
infrangible
intangible
irrefrangible
legible
reeligible
refrangible
submergible
tangible
unintelligible
untangible

Synonyms and antonyms of intelligible in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INTELLIGIBLE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «intelligible» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of intelligible

Translation of «intelligible» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INTELLIGIBLE

Find out the translation of intelligible to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of intelligible from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «intelligible» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

容易理解的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

inteligible
570 millions of speakers

English

intelligible
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सुगम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

واضح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вразумительного
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

inteligível
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বুদ্ধিগম্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

compréhensible
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Difahami
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verständlich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

理解できる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

이해할 수 있는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dipahami
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

minh bạch
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தெளிவான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सुगम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

anlaşılır
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

intelligibile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zrozumiały
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зрозумілого
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

inteligibil
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κατανοητή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verstaanbaar
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

begriplig
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forståelig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of intelligible

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INTELLIGIBLE»

The term «intelligible» is quite widely used and occupies the 54.498 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INTELLIGIBLE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «intelligible» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «intelligible» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about intelligible

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10 QUOTES WITH «INTELLIGIBLE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word intelligible.
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Hans Urs von Balthasar
The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.
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Giordano Bruno
We see that pedantry has never been held in such esteem for the government of the world as in our times, and it offers as many paths of the true intelligible species and objects of infallible and sole truth as there are individual pedants.
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Richard Cobden
It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.
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Ralph Cudworth
The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.
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David Elliott
We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life.
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Ronald Fisher
We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.
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Martin Heidegger
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
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Anthony Hope
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
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Anthony Hope
Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
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David Hume
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INTELLIGIBLE»

Discover the use of intelligible in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to intelligible and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Intelligible Constitution : The Supreme Court's ...
Both a fascinating look at how the Court shapes its opinions and a clarion call to action, this book provides an important addition to our understanding of how to maintain the Constitution as a living document, by and for the People, in its ...
Joseph Goldstein Sterling Professor of Law Yale University Law School, 1992
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The Intelligible Universe: An Overview of the Last Thirteen ...
"This book reviews WMAP's main results (2003) and discusses in detail how the accurate qualitative results for the "age" of the universe and the Hubble constant were anticipated in an article published five years before in Acta Cosmologica, ...
Julio Antonio Gonzalo, 2008
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Intelligible World: Metaphysics and Value
The intelligible world has been variously conceived — as a world of "ideas," a realm of ends, a world of freedom, a kingdom of spirits. Only in a world of this general character, it is felt, can a life that is intelligible be lived. Whether thought of as a ...
Wilbur Marshall Urban, 2004
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'Intelligible Beauty': Recent Research on Byzantine Jewellery
This volume represents a rare opportunity to make this crucial work available to a much wider specialist and non-specialist audience in Britain (and beyond).
Chris Entwistle, Noël Adams, 2010
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The Art of the Intelligible: An Elementary Survey of ...
Readership: Students and teachers of mathematics, science and philosophy. The greater part of the book can be read and enjoyed by anyone possessing a good high school mathematics background.
J. Bell, 2001
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The End of the Mind: The Edge of the Intelligible in Hardy, ...
This book seeks to include among accounts of modern lyric poetry a theory of the poem's relation to the unintelligible.
DeSales Harrison, 2005
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The Architecture of the Intelligible Universe in the ...
Arthur Hilary Armstrong. monad. This is Plotinus's doctrine, but not apparently that of Plato, for whom the two principles seem to be independent correlatives, though not co-equal. It seems doubtful, however, whether this modification is really ...
Arthur Hilary Armstrong, 2013
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The Categorical Imperative: A Study in Kant's Moral Philosophy
The intelligible world is the ground of ihe sensible world and of its laws.1 Hence my free will acting under the principle of autonomy can, as belonging to the intelligible world, be none the less the ground of actions which, as belonging to the ...
Herbert James Paton, 1971
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The Power to Legislate
The Court currently makes this determination using the “intelligible principle test,” whose application is informed by various additional considerations. The Intelligible Principle Test The controlling test for a violation of the nondelegation ...
Richard E. Levy, 2006
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The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and ...
It is, in other words, a body spoken for or on behalf of.50 The body that is evaluated in the swimsuit competition is, borrowing again from Foucault, an " intelligible body," a body that explains sexuality to the mass-mediated audience.
Sarah Banet-Weiser, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INTELLIGIBLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term intelligible is used in the context of the following news items.
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NFL gets involved in plan to keep American Super Bowl …
“The CRTC lacked an intelligible justification to single out the Super Bowl,” the NFL's motion said. “It treated the Super Bowl as a separate class ... «Awful Announcing, Jul 15»
2
New minister for Moray church - Press and Journal
The new minister of a Moray church has vowed to reach out and connect with local people by making services “intelligible”. The Rev Peter ... «Aberdeen Press and Journal, Jul 15»
3
Joshua Oppenheimer interview: The director of The Look of Silence …
... but other times, they're kind of antiheroes. They sort of throw themselves into a model of being bad that is at least intelligible and inhabitable. «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
4
Controlled Burn | NewsCenter | SDSU
... role in the partnership is researching and testing how people use the software and how it can be made more user-friendly and intelligible. «SDSU Newscenter, Jul 15»
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Airport to drive away critters with noise - Jackson Hole News&Guide …
The airport's chosen make and model, an LRAD 300X-RE, is capable of sending “powerful, intelligible communication” up to 0.6 miles, ... «Jackson Hole News&Guide, Jul 15»
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The Most Perfect Metaphor for New Motherhood | Katherine Stanley …
That is why any and all advice you receive, and there is lots of it, is barely intelligible, as if it were being shouted across some vast space from a ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
7
How Do You Speak American? Mostly, Just Make Up Words
Another was its "general uniformity"—even within regional dialects, the English people spoke in one part of the country was intelligible to ... «Atlas Obscura, Jul 15»
8
Find only the best at “The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel …
The HD soundtrack is also excellent, with a fine mix of bustling city noise, great music, and intelligible dialogue. There are only two extras on ... «The Virginian-Pilot, Jul 15»
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Meet the artists: Roxbury Rocks Music Festival | Bay State Banner
The Boston Herald wrote “Jackson's way with a lyric is always intelligible and solid.” Then, Boston Magazine featured Ms. Jackson in their ... «BayStateBanner, Jul 15»
10
San Diego Source > News > Complicating the calculation of CEO pay
“Shareholders need intelligible disclosure that can be understood by a lay reader without the benefit of specialized expertise or the need for an ... «San Diego Source, Jul 15»

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