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legible

/ˈlɛd͡ʒəbl/ adjective C2
  1. Clear enough to be read; readable, particularly of handwriting. · 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. · You can make this program code more legible by using meaningful variable names.
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The other hardly legible.”
The Valley of Fear, p. 5 · C1
These rolls consisted of slips of cloth about four inches wide and eighteen long; they were all carefully numbered and closely covered with writing, so legible that Dantès could easily read it, as well as make out the sense—it being in Italian, a language he, as a Provençal, perfectly understood.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 156 · C1
But sometimes a letter may be legible even when burned.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 144 · C1
The letter had, as I said, been burned and it was not all legible.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 145 · C1

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