understandable
adjective
1 he made me rewrite the book to make it understandable to nonscientists:
comprehensible, easy to understand, intelligible, penetrable, fathomable, graspable, lucid, coherent, clear, crystal clear, explicit, unambiguous, transparent, plain, straightforward, digestible, user-friendly, glanceable;
perspicuous.
▷antonyms incomprehensible, unfathomable.
2 parents have a wholly understandable desire for their children to be happy:
unsurprising, expected, to be expected, predictable, foreseeable, inevitable;
reasonable, acceptable, logical, rational, normal, natural, par for the course, explicable, explainable, conceivable, imaginable, thinkable, plausible, tenable;
justifiable, justified, admissible, allowable, accountable, defensible, excusable, pardonable, forgivable;
informal in the cards.
▷antonyms surprising, mysterious.