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  1. adjective Possible to read or decipher: legible handwriting.
  2. adjective Plainly discernible; apparent: legible weaknesses in character and disposition.

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  • The signature was legible, and the letter text was rational enough The bronze man located Meander Surett's desert laboratory without difficulty. —  062 - The Pirate's Ghost
  • The label was still legible, and he made it out with the aid of his torch. —  Dancers in Mourning - Margery Allingham - Campion 09 -1937
  • He starts Ch. 9 by talking about the "literary experience" of Whole Foods: making the food chain "legible" - —  Serendip's Exchange -
  • While on some bricks bearing the name of a king who lived about 3000 B.C. the inscription is uncouth and scarcely legible, and even their shape is rude and the material very inferior, those of the later Babylonian period (600 B.C.) are handsome and neatly made. —  Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
  • He crossed to her side Tell me what you are hunting; perhaps I can help you Alene ignored his air of exaggerated solemnity You see, Laura said one must be twelve years old to be legible--to the Club, you know Then if I'm not too old, I'm old enough to belong! —  Peggy-Alone
 

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  1. Middle English, from Late Latin legibilis, from Latin legere, to read; see leg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Spanish legible = Portuguese legivel, from Late Latin legibilis. legible, from Latin legere, read: see legend.
 

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/ˈlɛdʒɪbl/
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