legible

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛd͡ʒəbl/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• 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.

Derived terms

• hyperlegible
• interlegible
• legibleness
• semilegible

Related terms

• legibility
• legibly
• intelligible

Translations

clear enough to be read

• Arabic: مَقْرُوء (maqrūʔ)
• Armenian: ընթեռնելի (hy) (əntʻeṙneli)
• Asturian: lleíble
• Azerbaijani: oxunaqlı
• Basque: irakurterraz
• Bulgarian: четлив (bg) (četliv)
• Catalan: llegible
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 可讀的 / 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 (hu)
• Icelandic: læsilegur (is)
• Ido: lektebla (io)
• Interlingua: legible
• Irish: inléite
• Italian: leggibile (it)
• Japanese: 読める (ja) (yomeru), 読みやすい (yomiyasui), 可読 (kadoku)
• 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
• Maltese: leġġibbli
• Manx: so-lhaih, lhaihagh, lhaihoil
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Occitan: legible (oc)
• Polish: czytelny (pl)
• Portuguese: legível (pt)
• Romanian: lizibil (ro), citeț (ro), delușit, descifrabil (ro)
• Russian: разбо́рчивый (ru) (razbórčivyj), удобочита́емый (ru) (udobočitájemyj)
• Spanish: legible (es), leíble (es)
• Swedish: läslig (sv), läsbar (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: ཀློག་བདེ་པོ (klog bde po)
• Turkish: okunaklı (tr), okunabilir (tr)
• Ukrainian: розбі́рливий (rozbírlyvyj), читабельний (čytabelʹnyj)
• Vietnamese: dễ đọc
• Yiddish: לייענעוודיק (leyenevdik)
• Zyphe: fiang

Occitan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin legibilis.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn):

  (file)

Adjective

legible m (feminine singular legibla, masculine plural legibles, feminine plural legiblas)

1. legible, readable

   Antonym: illegible

Related terms

• legibilitat
• legir

Further reading

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana‎^[1], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2026, page 404

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin legibilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leˈxible/ [leˈxi.β̞le]

• Audio (Peru):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ible
• Syllabification: le‧gi‧ble

Adjective

legible m or f (masculine and feminine plural legibles)

1. legible, readable

   Synonym: leíble

   Antonym: ilegible

Derived terms

• ilegible
• legibilidad

Further reading

• “legible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025