All 11 Uses
comprehend
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The Shack
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- "Elousia?" asked Mack, not comprehending at all.†
Chpt 5.comprehending = understanding
- At this point, you don't even comprehend that freedom is an incremental process.†
Chpt 6.comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
- This would take some time to comprehend.
Chpt 6. *comprehend = to fully understand
- Who wants to worship a God who can be fully comprehended, eh?†
Chpt 6.comprehended = understood completely
- Humans are so lost and damaged that to you it is almost incomprehensible that people could work or live together without someone being in charge.†
Chpt 8.incomprehensible = 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.
- "And now," Sarayu interjected, "we have come full circle, back to one of my initial statements: You humans are so lost and damaged that to you it is almost incomprehensible that relationship could exist apart from hierarchy.†
Chpt 8.
- Having chosen the ravaged path of independence, you don't even comprehend that you are dragging the entire Creation along with you.†
Chpt 9.comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
- It was almost too much to comprehend and once again his carefully guarded emotions threatened to spill over.†
Chpt 9.
- And sometimes—and this may seem incomprehensible to you right now—that road may even take you to the miracle of fully restored trust.†
Chpt 16.incomprehensible = 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.
- As incomprehensible as it sounds at this moment, you may well know this man in a different context one day.†
Chpt 16.
- Mack lay there, watching his friend ramble on, trying to listen and comprehend every word, which he didn't.†
Chpt 18.comprehend = 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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(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."