What is "understandable"

Usage examples of "understandable".

In their understandable zeal to go transrational, they often embrace any prerational occasion simply because it is nonrationalany occasion that looks biocentrically oriented, from horticultural planting mythology to rampant tribalism to blood magic and sensual glorification of a sentimental nature, all in the name, of course, of saving Gaia.

Since then, several dozen attempts have been made to reduce the original Chinese sounds, represented by some tens of thousands of separate pictograms, into readily understandable phonetics for Western use.

Since then, several dozen attempts have been made to reduce the original Chinese sounds, represented by some tens of thousands of separate pictograms, into readily understandable phonetics for West-em use.

The time to ride to Jakaafra is certainly understandable, since Geliendra is on the southernmost point of the diamond walls that surround the Forest, and Jakaafra above the northernmost.

The image finally resolved from indistinct blob to something even less understandable -- an unsymmetrical jumble of irregular spires and spikes projecting in all directions.

With some understandable resentment perhaps, Sewall concluded that Adams had gone as far as his ambition would take him, and further that he was ill suited for his present role.

Considering all that Adams had suffered at the hand of Callender, it would have been quite understandable had he lashed out at Jefferson for his hypocrisy and immorality.

If anything, the Corbanites, despite their very visible and understandable anger, seemed awkward and amateurish, unorganized in their opposition, while the Bonita Vistans seemed prepared, methodical, and capable.

There they anchored in the Gulf of Cambay, off the city of Calicut, and were met with understandable misgivings.

Sasaki and Johnson had been effusive in their greetingsquite understandable, considering it had been almost ten months since the last cycleship lander had touched down at Cydonia Basebut Jessup had brusquely demanded that they accompany him to the habitat.

The power of even the best of them had created an understandable egocentrism and also a sense of paranoia, for they did not wish to lose what they had.

If this was the sort of pleasurable pursuit advocated by the garden philosophers, no doubt it was perfectly understandable why Epicureanism had seen a revival in the modern century.

Spots so isolated that until recent years the natives seldom got as far as even nearby Charleston, and even today speak a local dialect composed of English and Gullah, which is hardly understandable to a Yankee.

That is still quite understandable to us, but in its bareness and occasional ineptitudes it seems halfway back to the limitations and lumberingness of Early English or Gothic.

This posttraumatic confusion was understandable and was soon sorted out.