intelligibly
/ˌɪntˈɛlədʒəbli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.62 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an intelligible manner.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: comprehensibly"
- "O my God, (euer conſtant to thine ovvne vvayes), thou haſt proceeded opẽly [openly], intelligibly, manifeſtly, by the book."
- "When people can no longer disagree intelligibly, a society disintegrates; where they need interpreters, they cannot either unite or emerge from conflict into unbelittling compromise."
- "In order to state intelligibly the working hypothesis suggested by the foregoing facts, it will be necessary to briefly state the conclusions as to the formation of åsar and the determination of river courses reached by the senior author after a practically exhaustive survey of the cenology of the north-eastern quarter of Iowa."
Etymology
Etymology tree English intelligible Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English intelligibly From intelligible + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more intelligibly (comparative)
most intelligibly (superlative)