Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

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.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hamlet, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Milanese dialect, License CC BY-SA 4.0