All 8 Uses of
comprehend
in
Ancillary Justice
- They wanted someone dead," she explained, to Lieutenant Awn's uncomprehending, appalled expression, "they did not say, You are trouble we want you gone and then shoot.†
p. 49.5 *uncomprehending = not understandingstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncomprehending means not and reverses the meaning of comprehending. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Lieutenant Awn looked at me dazedly for a few moments, uncomprehending.†
p. 91.5
- Lieutenant Awn looked incomprehension at her.†
p. 93.8incomprehension = lack of understanding of somethingstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incomprehension means not and reverses the meaning of comprehension. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- Comprehension animated her, for just a moment.†
p. 107.9comprehension = the understanding of something
- The head priest blinked, uncomprehending.†
p. 113.5uncomprehending = not understandingstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncomprehending means not and reverses the meaning of comprehending. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Or if she had it might have been incomprehensible to her.†
p. 131.7incomprehensible = 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.
- She frowned, not comprehending.†
p. 222.5comprehending = understanding
- This was, apparently, comprehensible to Seivarden.†
p. 226.4
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) 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."