Intelligibility
Intelligibility
#518. Intelligibility. -- N. intelligibility; clearness, explicitness
&c. adj.; lucidity, comprehensibility, perspicuity; legibility, plain
speaking &c. (manifestation) 525; precision &c. 494; [Grk][Grk]; a word to the wise.
- V. be intelligible &c. adj.; speak for itself, speak volumes; tell its
own tale, lie on the surface.
- render intelligible &c. adj.; popularize, simplify, clear up;
elucidate &c. (explain) 522.
- understand, comprehend, take, take in; catch, grasp, follow, collect,
master, make out; see with half an eye, see daylight, see one's way; enter
into the ideas of; come to an understanding.
- Adj. intelligible; clear, clear as day, clear as noonday; lucid;
perspicuous, transpicuous[obs]; luminous, transparent.
- easily understood, easy to understand, for the million, intelligible
to the meanest capacity, popularized.
- plain, distinct, explicit; positive; definite &c. (precise) 494.
- graphic; expressive &c. (meaning) 516; illustrative &c. (explanatory)
522.
- unambiguous, unequivocal, unmistakable &c. (manifest) 525; unconfused;
legible, recognizable; obvious &c. 525.
- Adv. in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English.
- Phr. he that runs may read &c. (manifest) 525.