All 11 Uses
comprehend
in
The Red Badge of Courage
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- He must look to the grave for comprehension.†
Chpt 3comprehension = the understanding of something
- Or else they didn't comprehend—the fools.†
Chpt 6comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
- Perhaps the general, unable to comprehend chaos, might call upon him for information.†
Chpt 6
- At last he spoke as if dimly comprehending.
Chpt 9 *comprehending = understanding
- And it could always be seen that they were bewildered by the alleged news and could not fully comprehend a defeat.†
Chpt 16comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
- "Oh," he said, comprehending.†
Chpt 17comprehending = understanding
- Sometimes his voice could be heard in a wild, incomprehensible laugh.†
Chpt 17incomprehensible = 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.
- From their position as they again faced toward the place of the fighting, they could of comprehend a greater amount of the battle than when their visions had been blurred by the hurling smoke of the line.†
Chpt 18comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
- And the men of the regiment, with their starting eyes and sweating faces, running madly, or falling, as if thrown headlong, to queer, heaped-up corpses—all were comprehended.†
Chpt 19comprehended = understood completely
- The whole affair seemed incomprehensible to many of them.†
Chpt 19incomprehensible = 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.
- Gradually his brain emerged from the clogged clouds, and at last he was enabled to more closely comprehend himself and circumstance.†
Chpt 24comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
Definitions:
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(1)
(comprehend) to understand something -- especially to understand it completely
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely (and more frequently in the past), comprehend can mean to include as part of something broader. That was the first sense of the word listed in Webster's Dictionary of 1828 with this sample sentence: "The empire of Great Britain comprehends England, Scotland and Ireland, with their dependencies."