All 7 Uses of
comprehend
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
- Many an evening I have worked over them—we all did something of the kind—but that has become so unreal to me I cannot comprehend it any more.
Chpt 2comprehend = understand
- After three weeks it was no longer incomprehensible to us that a braided postman should have more authority over us than had formerly our parents, our teachers, and the whole gamut of culture from Plato to Goethe.
Chpt 2incomprehensible = not understandablestandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incomprehensible means not and reverses the meaning of comprehensible. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- It was not any recognition of their beauty and their significance that attracted us, but the communion, the feeling of a comradeship with the things and events of our existence, which cut us off and made the world of our parents a thing incomprehensible to us—for then we surrendered ourselves to events and were lost in them, and the least little thing was enough to carry us down the stream of eternity.
Chpt 6
- They have worries, aims, desires, that I cannot comprehend.
Chpt 7 *comprehend = understand
- And his opinion is quite typical, here one meets it time and again, and there is nothing with which one can properly counter it, because that is the limit of their comprehension of the factors involved.
Chpt 9comprehension = understanding
- The days stand like angels in blue and gold, incomprehensible, above the ring of annihilation.
Chpt 11incomprehensible = not understandablestandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incomprehensible means not and reverses the meaning of comprehensible. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- I look at him without comprehending.
Chpt 11comprehending = understanding
Definition:
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(comprehend) to understand something -- especially to understand it completely