All 5 Uses of
comprehend
in
The Golden Apples
- Miss Eckhart might have come over to his aisle more often, but she had an incomprehensible habit of buying shoes two or even four pairs at a time, to save going back, or to take precaution against never finding them again.†
Story 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.
- (After all, nobody knew why she camel) It was because she was from so far away, at any rate, people said to excuse her, that she couldn't comprehend; Miss Perdita Mayo, who took in sewing and made everybody's trousseaux, said Miss Eckhart's differences were why shame alone had not killed her and killed her mother too; that differences were reasons†
Story 2comprehend = understand -- especially to understand it completely
- He felt a lapse of all knowledge of Emma as his wife, and of comprehending the future,
Story 6 *comprehending = understanding
- Niggers would think he comprehended all their nigger-business—that he himself might be at the Cat at two.†
Story 6comprehended = understood completely
- Her gaze came out of her face with the whole of animal comprehension; whether it was menace or alarm in the full-open eyes, her face made a burning-glass of looking.†
Story 6comprehension = the understanding of something
Definition:
to understand something -- especially to understand it completely