Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: comprehended
IPA transcription: [k,ɑmpɹɪh'ɛndɪd]
Pronunciations of comprehended
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: appreciated, apprehended, comprehended
    Meaning: fully understood or grasped; "dangers not yet appreciated"; "these apprehended truths"; "a thing comprehended is a thing known as fully as it can be known"
Usage examples
  • Have I, sir, comprehended your instructions?"
  • Instantly Darrell comprehended the situation.
  • This bold surmise, however, she soon learnt comprehended but half the fact.
  • Much as she admired Mr. Denis Oglethorpe, she never quite comprehended him.
  • He looked at her with a dazed expression, as if he scarcely comprehended her words.
  • I comprehended, at once, that it was from this extraordinary sun that the place derived its doleful light.
  • Thus every one finds that, whilst comprehended under that consciousness, the little finger is as much a part of himself as what is most so.
  • The more liberal the terms of comprehension, the greater was the alarm of every separatist who knew that he could, in no case, be comprehended.
  • Fortunately for him, Highbury, including Randalls in the same parish, and Donwell Abbey in the parish adjoining, the seat of Mr. Knightley, comprehended many such.
  • We shall here endeavour briefly to explain the great difference in human understandings: After which the reason of the difference between men and animals will easily be comprehended.
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