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Word:
intelligible
IPA transcription: [,ɪnt'ɛlədʒəbəl]
Pronunciations of intelligible
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adverb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
apprehensible, intelligible, graspable, perceivable, understandable
Meaning:
capable of being apprehended or understood
Usage examples
These were the last intelligible words he ever spoke.
But an intelligible object, being above time, is everlasting.
For as the senses are to things sensible, so is our intellect to things intelligible.
Now to know the first intelligible principles is the action belonging to the human species.
But in the intellect, which has no corporeal organ, nothing but what is intelligible exists.
Thus through the intelligible species the possible intellect is linked to the body of this or that particular man.
In a discourse to the Chief Preceptor of Music at the court of Lu, the Master said, "Music is an intelligible thing.
He was forced to make use of this argument, since only through sensible things can we come to know intelligible ones.
This reproach of my dependence had become a vague sing-song in my ear: very painful and crushing, but only half intelligible.
And sometimes the intelligible species is in a middle state, between potentiality and act: and then we have habitual knowledge.
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Hamlet
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1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording
Milanese dialect
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