All 4 Uses of
comprehend
in
Childhood's End
- They could now make a better case for this claim than ever before, but it was safe to say that most of 2050's productions would have seemed incomprehensibly highbrow to 1950.†
Chpt 10incomprehensibly = in a manner that cannot be understoodstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incomprehensibly means not and reverses the meaning of comprehensibly. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- Andrew Carson's intriguing volumes and curves changed slowly as one watched, according to complex patterns that the mind could appreciate, even if it could not fully comprehend them.†
Chpt 15 *comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
- And it explained-if the word could be used fur anything so incomprehensible-all that had happened since that evening at Rupert Boyce's home.†
Chpt 18incomprehensible = 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 would not have been a threat to us, and therefore we do not comprehend it.†
Chpt 20comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
Definition:
to understand something -- especially to understand it completely