intelligibly

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Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
23
Letters
12

Definition of intelligibly

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In an intelligible manner.
    “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.”

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Etymology

From intelligible + -ly.

Words you can make from intelligibly

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9-letter words

6 words

8-letter words

4 words

7-letter words

11 words

6-letter words

22 words

5-letter words

37 words

4-letter words

51 words

3-letter words

45 words

2-letter words

14 words

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