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Meaning understandable meaning
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Synonyms understandable synonyms
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Simple sentences
Her anger is understandable.
He worked hard to make his ideas understandable at the meeting.
Can you phrase your answer in an understandable manner?
It is my fear that in an understandable but foolish wish for the European Union to have its own defence capability, politicians are forging ahead with plans that are at best wishful thoughts, and at worst dangerous.
It's perfectly understandable.
That's understandable.
Your speech is not at all understandable to me.
His anger is understandable.
The Koran, far from being inimitable, is a literary work of inferior quality, as it is neither clear, nor understandable, nor does it possess any practical value and is certainly not a revealed book.
For understandable reasons, they have been rejected.
It was understandable.
That seems understandable.
That's completely understandable.
It is completely understandable to wipe your nose on the bedclothes if you cannot find your handkerchief with the lights out.
This fear is understandable.
What he writes apart from his sentences is understandable, though full of errors and stylistic flaws. But when he tackles writing his example sentences, it's just incomprehensible bullshit.
I think that's understandable.
Movie subtitles
Understandable for Elevens, but you're Britannian, aren't you?
Understandable, and I will just have to transcend that.
It's completely understandable.
In your very understandable excitement, a great injustice is being done.
That's understandable, isn't it?
You want the portrait. Perfectly understandable.
Also perfectly understandable.
You made an understandable mistake.
Your impatience is quite understandable.
I'd say that was an understandable desire to be warm.
But it was understandable, under the circumstances.
An entirely natural and understandable relationship.
It is entirely understandable that you are antagonistic to the prisoner.
It was quite understandable. - Yes, indeed.
Oh that's understandable.
I think it's understandable Watson.
It's quite understandable Sir John.
It's quite understandable.
Isn't it understandable?
The more understandable, the more strange you didn't tell me.
But if her husband rejects her love, if he puts another love before it if he denies her the only meaning that her life can have is it not understandable if she seeks a meaning for it elsewhere?
And in case you're afflicted with an understandable skepticism, this is official.
Quite understandable.
It's understandable, isn't it?
Mildred Atkinson wasn't killed for any understandable reason.
And her scowling face is instantly understandable.
Oh, if we ever do get messages, understandable ones that is, they'll be given out.
But it was understandable, under the circumstances. I knew I'd seen you.
You must not permit your grief, understandable as it may be.
He talks too much about his health, but when you get to be his age, it's understandable.
A defence counsel can explain, he can make things understandable, perhaps he can make a judge lenient.
That's quite understandable.
Your curiosity is totally understandable and yet unseemly.
News and current affairs
When American wealth seemed to be growing year after year as the stock market boomed, this was understandable; individual Americans were becoming richer without savings, so why bother?
This situation is both understandable and increasingly unsettling for America's well-being and that of the global economy.
Both Israel and the US are nostalgic for a twentieth-century world of nation-states, which is understandable, since that is the world to which the kind of conventional power they possess is best suited.
A recent survey in the US by the organization Common Sense Media reveals a paradox, but one that is perfectly understandable.
Wyatt's reluctance to join in the exploitation of great apes is understandable, given that the film itself tells the story of apes rising up in response to oppression from dominant humans.
The attraction of this metaphor may be attributable to the excessive trust that Americans place not only in their army, which is understandable, but in force in general, which is much less understandable in the case of an intelligent people.
Afghanistan was the only case where a military response was understandable: its government had, after all, given al-Qaeda a temporary territorial home.
The revival of extreme nationalism in East Asia is both worrisome and understandable.
Blair's Euroskepticism is understandable insofar as it chimes with the British mood.
In any case, while the Swiss authorities' discomfort with the situation is understandable, their decision is disquieting.
On the consumer side, this is quite understandable.
This is understandable: the communist justice system was manipulated to serve the regime, and thousands of judges cannot be replaced overnight.
This is understandable.
Their appetite for change - understandable, given the treatment of women in traditional Muslim societies - appears to be one of the main causes underlying the force of the revolutionary impulse in Tunisia and Egypt.
If our toolbox were empty, our inaction might be understandable.
Combine this with the continued fall in housing prices, and it is understandable that consumer spending remains depressed.
A similar resistance to noisome conclusions - and similarly understandable from a psychological viewpoint - informs today's thinking about terrorists.
From Mississippi to Maine, and from New York to New Orleans, America's written language is the same and the spoken language is understandable to all.
But foreign concerns about the status of China's mandate in Tibet are understandable: Tibet is the strategic high ground between the two most important nuclear powers in Asia.
Yet his reluctance is understandable.