Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Possible to read or decipher: legible handwriting.
- adj. Plainly discernible; apparent: legible weaknesses in character and disposition.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- That may be read; written plainly or in intelligible characters: as, a legible manuscript.
- Hence That may be discovered or discerned by marks or indications.
- Synonyms Readable, recognizable, plain, manifest.
Wiktionary
- adj. Being clear enough to be read, readable, particularly for handwriting.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Capable of being read or deciphered; distinct to the eye; plain; -- used of writing or printing.
- adj. Capable of being discovered or understood by apparent marks or indications.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of handwriting, print, etc.) capable of being read or deciphered
Etymologies
- From Late Latin legibilis ("that can be read"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Late Latin legibilis, from Latin legere, to read; see leg- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Who heard of making the title legible only by opening the book up and looking at both sides?”
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“The teacher became preoccupied with the presentation of the OHPs, making sure they were laid out clearly and legible from the back of the class, as they would be unable to effect significant changes on the fly.”
“The plane was sitting on the tarmac, yards away, the livery's colours distorted by the bright sunshine, but the name legible on the fuselage: Freebird.”
“Solomon was celebrated for wisdom, but folly is write in legible characters upon his almost every action.”
“He starts Ch. 9 by talking about the "literary experience" of Whole Foods: making the food chain "legible" -”
“In the upper left-hand corner, a name was legible: Miracles for the Masses.”
“The illustration is probably of Smolin's "fecund universe" it's not really legible, which is a rather different idea.”
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“She had to grip the cheap ballpoint pen hard in order to make her name a legible scrawl.”
“In this favourable position for hearing all that passed, I noted, in terms legible and in abbreviations and marks intelligible to myself, what was read from the”
“In this favorable position for hearing all that passed I noted down, in terms legible and in abbreviations and marks intelligible to myself, what was read from the chair or spoken by the members, and losing not”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘legible’.
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Writing
graphoanalysis, agraphia, agraphic, anorthography, logagraphia, cipher, code, inscribe, penmanship, cursive, Palmer method, calligraphy and 100 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Words that can be spelled on an upsid...
Imagine my joy when I was wearing my calculator watch and was first introduced to someone named Leslie - there was exactly enough room on the display for 317537.14.
Edit: I've discove...hi, hello, leslie, sheesh, she, bells, hells, hog, boss, goggles, he, bob and 233 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Of -ibles, not -ables
Tricksy buggers! I've not included those where neither is favorable.
accessible, admissible, alible, apprehensible, audible, coercible, cognoscible, collapsible, collectible, combustible, comestible, compactible and 103 more...
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My GRE Vocab
moniker, sobriquet, prerogative, aberration, aberrant, nuance, notorious, infamous, renown, allude, refer, content and 109 more...
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Words I have to learn
exasperate, felony, weld, fraud, worksheet, ransom, rehearse, preliminary, offshore, parole, infamous, sieve and 436 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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words of collect
A Heidegger Collection - a log of logues
leech, lectern, lection, lecture, legend, legible, legion, lesson, coil, collect, diligent, elect and 123 more...
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2007bee-r02
2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee Round 2
query, tendency, danceable, parachute, malignant, brutal, humanely, lyrically, deductible, shindig, gravel, embroidered and 274 more...
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