understandably

understandable | American Dictionary

understandable
adjective
us/ˌʌn·dərˈstæn·də·bəl/
able to be understood, so that you know what something means:
You’ve got to tell a story to three-year-olds in a way that’s understandable to them.
If you say that something a person does is understandable, you feel that it is the way most people would behave in that situation:
Her actions are understandable when you consider how badly she was treated.

Examples of understandable

understandable
For many years, these deficiencies were understandable as they were traced to the extended absence of viable models of personality in the field of psychology.
All of these doubts are epistemologically permissible and quite understandable in view of the existing deep difficulties.
Understandable in an article written for a general audience, this omission was a glaring shortcoming for the entire edifice.
Absorbance values are adjusted to make the curves understandable.
Given some of the advantages of examples, this kind of reporting is understandable.
Our environment is complex, but it is understandable through rational investigation, and it is not to be feared.
If hate speech were really inarticulate, it would cease to be understandable, meaningful, or objectionable.
Seen from this perspective, it is understandable that the notion that the urnfields and barrows were funerary monuments is never found in the sagas.
In part, this is understandable given the novelty of the technology and the small numbers of children implanted annually in any programme.
But there is a group for whom time is at a premium, and for whom a highly understandable system is critically important.
It would have been perfectly understandable if the author had dealt first with being in general and, immediately afterwards, with categorial being.
What is foolish about non-cooperators is not their preferences, which are perfectly understandable, but their principle of rational choice.
This is understandable when we look at the petitions they wrote.
But for all his understandable desire, neither the texts of authority nor authority itself were (or are) fixed or resistant to different understandings.
Parts of it were regarded as understandable, such as the consoles and the pattern of the timber structure, but the totality of it was neglected.
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