Used in a Sentence

understandable

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for understandable.

Editorial note

Firefox will only change things if you specifically get a Firefox installer, where it thinking that's your intent is understandable.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

Capable of being understood; comprehensible.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of understandable gathered in one view.

adjective

Capable of being understood; comprehensible.

adjective

Capable of being accepted or excused under the circumstances.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for understandable.

Example sentences

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Firefox will only change things if you specifically get a Firefox installer, where it thinking that's your intent is understandable.

2

It's understandable that there are some hurdles involved in businesses that handle customer money like this.

3

If you don't want to just use Sqlite (understandable), and you don't want to write something that is as good as Sqlite (also understandable), then you're going to have a crap database implementation.

4

With that knowledge, everything he says and does becomes a lot more understandable.

5

If you equate lobbying with corruption, which I kind of do then it's understandable.

6

This move is totally understandable and provably only thing we can effectively do today.

7

Your example is understandable, but not the norm.

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You can write nice understandable code with lambdas, but under the hood many of them are removed and the actual running code is similar to the imperative version.

9

This is pretty understandable for machines run concurrently.

10

It's understandable why someone making $120k a year or more with a lot of Java web work around might not take the risk of jumping to an Android job.

11

It is understandable but completely disgusts me.

12

I hope this elaboration makes the situation more understandable.

Quote examples

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There's "oh man, this one variable isn't sanitized", which is a bad, but understandable mistake.

2

It's understandable that they're concerned about how the "feminist community" sees them.

3

There is no way Apple was going to brand iOS, which is understandable — that would be like seeing an "Intel Inside" sticker on a MacBook.

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;-) Sorry, couldn't resist poking fun at "rouge", even though it is a perfectly understandable typo.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use understandable in a sentence?

Firefox will only change things if you specifically get a Firefox installer, where it thinking that's your intent is understandable.

What does understandable mean?

Capable of being understood; comprehensible.

What part of speech is understandable?

understandable is commonly used as adjective.