Roget's Thesaurus

#518. Intelligibility

Nouns

intelligibility; clearness, explicitness etc. adj.; lucidity, comprehensibility, perspicuity; legibility, plain speaking etc. (manifestation) 525; precision etc. 494; phonanta synetoisy [Gr.]; a word to the wise.

Verbs

be intelligible etc. adj.; speak for itself, speak volumes; tell its own tale, lie on the surface. render intelligible etc. adj.; popularize, simplify, clear up; elucidate etc. (explain) 522. understand, comprehend, take, take in; catch, grasp, follow, collect, master, make out; see with half an eye, see daylight, see one's way; enter into the ideas of; come to an understanding.

Adjectives

intelligible; clear, clear as day, clear as noonday; lucid; perspicuous, transpicuous; luminous, transparent. easily understood, easy to understand, for the million, intelligible to the meanest capacity, popularized. plain, distinct, explicit; positive; definite etc. (precise) 494. graphic; expressive etc. (meaning) 516; illustrative etc. (explanatory) 522. unambiguous, unequivocal, unmistakable etc. (manifest) 525; unconfused; legible, recognizable; obvious etc. 525.

Adverbs

in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English.

Phrases

he that runs may read etc. (manifest) 525.