Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
Division (II) Communication of Ideas
Section I. Nature of Ideas Communicated

518. Intelligibility.

   NOUN:INTELLIGIBILITY; clearness, clarity, explicitness &c. adj.; lucidity, comprehensibility, perspicuity; legibility, plain speaking (manifestation) [See Manifestation]; precision [See Truth]; phonanta sunetoisi [Gr. φωναντα σϵνετoισι], a word to the wise.
   VERB: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 (explain) [See Interpretation].
  UNDERSTAND, comprehend; take, – in; catch, grasp, follow, collect, master, make out; see with half an eye, see daylight, see one’s way [all colloq.]; enter into the ideas of; come to an understanding.
   ADJECTIVE:INTELLIGIBLE; clear, clear as -day, – noonday, – crystal; lucid; perspicuous, transpicuous; luminous, transparent.
  easily understood, easy to understand, for the million, intelligible to the meanest capacity, popularized.
  PLAIN, distinct, clear-cut, hard-hitting, to the point, explicit; positive; definite (precise) [See Truth].
  unambiguous, unequivocal, unmistakable (manifest) [See Manifestation], unconfused; legible, recognizable; obvious [See Manifestation].
  GRAPHIC, telling, vivid; expressive (meaning) [See Meaning]; illustrative (explanatory) [See Interpretation].
   ADVERB:in plain -terms, – words, – English; hitting the nail on the head.
   QUOTATIONS:

1. He that runs may read (manifest) [See Manifestation].
2. That wayfaring men, though fools, should not err therein.—Bible