comprehend
Meaning of comprehend
verb
- grasp mentally; understand.
he couldn't comprehend her reasons for marrying Lovat
I simply couldn't comprehend what had happened
- include, comprise, or encompass.
a divine order comprehending all men
Middle English: from Old French comprehender, or Latin comprehendere, from com- ‘together’ + prehendere ‘grasp’.
Information about comprehend
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of comprehend is: comprehends.
- Languages in which comprehend is used:
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Hyphenation of comprehend
com-pre-hend
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- comprehend is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
comprehend synonyms
Meaning grok:
grok, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend
Meaning perceive:
Meaning embrace:
Meaning perceive the significance, explanation, or cause of:
Meaning discern or deduce after reflection or from information; understand:
Meaning understand the meaning or tendency of (a speaker or argument):
Meaning understand (a difficult problem or an enigmatic person) after much thought:
Meaning succeed in understanding or gaining insight into (something complex or mysterious):
Meaning become fully aware of (something) as a fact; understand clearly:
Meaning recognize or find out:
Meaning of or like God or a god:
Meaning undo (twisted, knitted, or woven threads):
Meaning succeed in understanding, interpreting, or identifying (something):
Meaning explain the meaning of (information or actions):
Meaning break or cause to break without a complete separation of the parts:
Meaning understand (an argument or the person making it):
Meaning a slender woody shoot growing from a branch or stem of a tree or shrub:
Meaning realize or grasp (something):
Meaning consist of; be made up of:
Meaning comprise or contain as part of a whole:
Meaning cause to participate in an activity or situation:
Meaning have or hold (someone or something) within:
comprehend antonyms
Meaning deny (someone) access to a place, group, or privilege:
Translation of comprehend
- German: verstehen, kapieren, begreifen, erfassen, raffen, checken, schnallen
- French: comprendre
- Spanish: entender, comprender
- Italian: capire, comprendere, cogliere
Words that rhyme with comprehend
hend, subtrahend, apprehend, coapprehend, deprehend, misapprehend, miscomprehend, preapprehend, precomprehend, prehend, reapprehend, recomprehend, reprehend, uncomprehend, afterhend, Townshend, shend, yshend
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