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How to pronounce intelligibly in English?

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Synonyms clearly, understandably


the foreigner spoke to us quite intelligibly.

Examples of intelligibly

intelligibly
But here on the waterline the race unfolded quite intelligibly within a few hundred yards.
From the independent.co.uk
The dockers are intelligibly and excusably wrong, but wrong they are.
From the guardian.co.uk
And thus, according to Professor Putnam, they cannot intelligibly suppose that it is so either.
From the economist.com
He was salivating too much to reply intelligibly and a quick look at the menu online showed me why.
From the nzherald.co.nz
The marketplace will start to reward modular books that can be intelligibly split into standalone chapters.
From the online.wsj.com
Judgments are made available quickly and intelligibly.
From the economist.com
Is it really so difficult to find educated music reviewers who can write expressively and intelligibly?
From the guardian.co.uk
He can tell time and speak intelligibly in short phrases.
From the time.com
Often their first reactions definitely amount to talking in their sleep, sometimes misleadingly intelligibly.
From the newscientist.com
More examples
  • In an intelligible manner; "the foreigner spoke to us quite intelligibly"
  • (intelligible) apprehensible: capable of being apprehended or understood
  • (intelligible) well articulated or enunciated, and loud enough to be heard distinctly; "intelligible pronunciation"
  • (intelligible) presented to the subject without any material being provided by sensibility. It is more or less equivalent to the terms supersensible and transcendent. (Cf. sensible.)