0 in a way that is easy to understand:
1 If you say that someone is understandably feeling a particular emotion, you mean that most people would feel the same way in that situation:
They were understandably unhappy about the show's poor ratings.
The nursing staff, understandably enough, wanted to check his identity before prescribing the drugs.
Since the attacks there has been a lot of fear, and understandably so.
Understandably, such an ambitious undertaking raises a number of issues where one might want to challenge some of the assumptions the author makes.
Given the scope of possible entries, the coverage is understandably uneven.
The word please3 is understandably assigned by the authors to the neutral, unemotional area of interpersonal meaning.
Similarly, parents who are understandably worried about the influence of older peers in such neighborhoods may be overly restrictive and harsh in parenting their offspring.
Households living in the hills are therefore understandably reluctant to use manure, and to a somewhat lesser extent crop residues, for fuel.
