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intelligible
Part of speech: AdjectiveCapable of being understood; clear.
Part of speech: AdverbIntelligibly.
Usage examples "intelligible":- This dream, that mysterious, only half- intelligible sound, recurred whenever she dozed, and her inability to hear the words uttered distressed her so much, that at length she sate bolt upright, resolved to sleep no more. - "Sylvia's Lovers -- Complete", Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell.
- The letters are large, well- formed, and very intelligible. - "A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2", Otto von Kotzebue.
- But not a word that they said was intelligible. - "The Trumpeter Swan", Temple Bailey.