legible

legible

English

Etymology

From Late Latin legibilis (“that can be read”), from Latin legō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛd͡ʒəbl/

• Audio (RP)

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• Rhymes: -ɛdʒəbl

Adjective

legible (comparative more legible, superlative most legible)

1. Clear enough to be read; readable, particularly of handwriting.

   Synonyms: clean, clear, decipherable, fair, readable

   Antonyms: illegible, unreadable

   Despite hardly having any energy to lift a pen, she left a legible note on the paper.

2. Written or phrased so as to be easy to understand.

   Synonyms: clear, decipherable, readable

   Antonym: unreadable

   You can make this program code more legible by using meaningful variable names.

Related terms

• legibility
• legibly
• intelligible

Translations

clear enough to be read

Arabic: مَقْرُوء‎ (maqrūʾ) Armenian: ընթեռնելի (hy) (əntʿeṙneli) Asturian: lleíble Basque: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: четлив (bg) (četliv) Catalan: llegible Chinese: Mandarin: 可读的 Czech: čitelný (cs) Danish: læselig, læsbar Dutch: leesbaar (nl) Esperanto: legebla Finnish: luettava (fi), lukukelpoinen French: lisible (fr) Galician: lexible (gl), lexíbel (gl) Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: leserlich (de) Greek: ευανάγνωστος (el) m (evanágnostos), αναγνώσιμος (el) m (anagnósimos) Hebrew: קָרִיא‎ (karí) Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: olvasható (hu), elolvasható, kiolvasható Icelandic: læsilegur (is) Ido: lektebla (io) Interlingua: legible Irish: inléite Italian: leggibile (it) Japanese: 読める (yomeru), 読みやすい (yomiyasui) Khmer: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Luxembourgish: lieserlech Manx: so-lhaih, lhaihagh, lhaihoil Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Polish: czytelny (pl) Portuguese: legível (pt) Romanian: lizibil (ro), citeț (ro), delușit, descifrabil (ro) Russian: разбо́рчивый (ru) (razbórčivyj), удобочита́емый (ru) (udobočitájemyj) Spanish: legible (es) Swedish: läslig (sv), läsbar (sv) Thai: please add this translation if you can Tibetan: ཀློག་བདེ་པོ (klog bde po) Turkish: okunaklı (tr) Ukrainian: розбі́рливий (rozbírlyvyj), читабельний (čytabelʹnyj) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can Yiddish: לייענעוודיק‎ (leyenevdik)

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin legibilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leˈxible/ [leˈxi.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -ible
• Syllabification: le‧gi‧ble

Adjective

legible (plural legibles)

1. legible

   Antonym: ilegible

Derived terms

• ilegible
• legibilidad

Further reading

• “legible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014