Comprehend

Definition: Comprehend

Comprehend

Verb

1. Get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?".

2. To become aware of through the senses; "I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon".

3. Include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory; "This group encompasses a wide range of people from different backgrounds"; "this should cover everyone in the group".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "comprehend" was first used: sometime around 1340. (references)

Note: Comprehend \Com`pre*hend"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Comprehended; present participle verb or noun Comprehending.]. (Websters 1913)

Tips from 1870

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Synonyms: Comprehend

Class

Include, comprise, comprehend, contain, admit, embrace, receive; inclose; (circumscribe); embody, encircle.

Composition

Include; (in a class); contain, hold, comprehend, take in, admit, embrace, embody; involve, implicate; drag into.

Intelligibility

Understand, comprehend, take, take in; catch, grasp, follow, collect, master, make out; see with half an eye, see daylight, see one's way; enter into the ideas of; come to an understanding.

Knowledge

Conceive; apprehend, comprehend; take, realize, understand, savvy, appreciate; fathom, make out; recognize, discern, perceive, see, get a sight-of, experience.

Crosswords: Comprehend

I'm not sure I comprehend what you're talking about. (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron)

The finite mind cannot comprehend infinity - and the soul, which comes from God, is infinite. (Fantastic Voyage; writing credit: Jerome Bixby; David Duncan)

And you're meddling with powers you can't possibly comprehend. (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; writing credit: Mario Van Peebles)

That's your brain trying to comprehend its own stupidity. (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)

From a distance I just cannot comprehend (From a Distance; performing artist: Bette Midler)

Whose heart can comprehend (Miss You Much; performing artist: Janet Jackson)

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Books

• Ayn Keloheynu: Learn to Comprehend the Hebrew Prayer Book (reference)

• Comprehend It! Animals, Grades 1-3 (reference)

• Comprehend It! The Sea, Grades 4-5 (reference)

• Comprehend It! Weird and Mysterious, Grades 6-8 (reference)

• Learning to Build and Comprehend Complex Information Structures: Prolog as a Case Study (Contemporary Studies in Cognitive Science and Technology) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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In this way arose Feudal Socialism: half lamentation, half lampoon; half echo of the past, half menace of the future; at times, by its bitter, witty and incisive criticism, striking the bourgeoisie to the very heart's core; but always ludicrous in its effect, through total incapacity to comprehend the march of modern history. (reference)

Twice in our own lifetime we have seen the United States, against their wishes and their traditions, against arguments, the force of which it is impossible not to comprehend, drawn by irresistible forces, into these wars in time to secure the victory of the good cause, but only after frightful slaughter and devastation had occurred. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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And now I can tolerably comprehend his behaviour.

Especially, she is seldom tolerant of emotion, when she does not fully comprehend the why and wherefore.

We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

The first step in the direction of truth is to understand the frame and scope of the intellect itself, to comprehend the act itself of intellection.

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Health

Individuals with global aphasia have severe communication difficulties and may be extremely limited in their ability to speak or comprehend language. (references)

Economic History

Armenia

Marketing principles and techniques are slowly developing, although some market participants do not fully comprehend the principles of a modern economy. (references)

Human Rights

Djibouti

The latter receive assistance from two persons, lay assessors, who are not members of the bench, but who are thought to possess sufficient legal sophistication to comprehend court proceedings. (references)

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Albanian

përfshij (add in, comprise, contain, count in, cover, embrace, imply, include, incorporate, involve, mix in, reach, span, store, subsume, sweep), kuptoj (apprehend, catch, cotton on, fathom, figure out, find, gather, get, grasp, make out, penetrate, perceive, pick out, Pierce, see, see through, sense, take, take in, twig on, understand). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فهم (accept, apprehend, apprehension, brain, catch, comprehension, conceive, conception, discern, discernment, grasp, hear, hear of, intelligence, know, know of, learn, learn about, make out, penetrate, perceive, perception, pick out, pierce, put across, puzzle out, realization, realize, see, see daylight, see the light, seeing, sense, skulk, sort out, take in, twig, understand, understanding, understood), ‏إشتمل (comprise, contain, embody, embrace, enclose, have, inclose, include, take in), ‏أدرك (apprehend, awake, feel, follow, get at, observe, overhaul, overtake, penetrate, perceive, pierce, realize, recognize, rejoin, see, see daylight, sense, sober up, take, twig, understand), ‏شمل (comprise, cover, embody, embrace, encompass, enfold, include, included, involve, unity). (various references)

Bulgarian 

схващам (apprehend, compass, dig, discover, get, get a hold of, grasp, note, perceive, pick up, see, sense, take in, twig, understand), разбирам (apprehend, catch on, cotton, discover, fathom, figure out, find out, follow, grasp, grip, have, latch, make out, penetrate, perceive, pick up, realize, riddle, rumble, see, see through, sense, take, take in, think, understand, work out), обхващам (comprise, embed, encompass, envelop, grip, include, obsess, overcome, overtake, pervade, possess, seize, span, spread, take in). (various references)

Chinese 

领会 (Comprehended, Comprehending), � �會 (grasp, understand), 省 (frugal, introspect, province, save, to leave out, to omit, to save, visit), 悟 . (various references)

Czech

chápat (appreciate, apprehend, construe, follow, get it, grasp, perceive, see, take, take in, understand), zahrnovat (bombard, comprise, contain, embody, embrace, encompass, envisage, imply, subsume), zahrnout (count, embrace, encompass, fill up, include, incorporate, involve, take in), pochopit (cotton on to, fathom, figure out, figure to oneself, get the message, grasp, perceive, realize, take in, understand), obsahovat (comprise, contain, encompass, hold, imply, include). (various references)

Farsi 

فهمیدن (Catch, Compass, Follow, Get, Grasp, Gripe, Induct, Intend, Learn, Realize, Savor, Savvy, See, Skill, Tell, Understand), فراگرفتن (Absorb, Engulf, Envelop, Form, Learn, Lick, Suffuse, Surround), دریافتن (Apprehend, Deduce, Discover, Perceive, Realize, Understand), درک کردن (Appreciate, Apprehend, Catch, Cognize, Compass, Coneive, Follow, Hear, Induct, Perceive, Realize, Savvy, Seize, Understand). (various references)

Finnish

ymmärtää (grasp, realize, see, understand), tajuta (apprehend, be aware of, be conscious of, grasp, have a taste for, realize), käsittää (comprise, grasp, include, realize, understand), älytä (catch, grasp, realize, understand). (various references)

French

comprendre (compass, comprise, conceive, contain, cover). (various references)

German

begreifen (appreciate, conceive, fathom, grasp, grip, realize, take in, to conceive, to realize, understand, understood, view). (various references)

Greek 

κατανοώ (appreciate, come to terms with, make head or tail of, take stock, understand), συμπεριλαμβάνω (add in, comprise, comprize, include, include in, subsume), περιλαμβάνω (accommodate, comprise, comprize, contain, include, involve), εννοώ (conceive, drive at, mean, purport, realize, understand). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקלוט (absorb, imbibe, merge, occlude, receive, take in), לעכל (assimilate, consume, digest, take in), לכלול (comprise, contain, embrace, encompass, figure in, include, take in), ל�"שי�' (accomplish, achieve, acquire, angle, attain, catch hold of, come by, fetch, gain, get hold of, grasp, land, obtain, procure, question, reach, secure), ל�"בין (apprehend, follow, gather, grasp, know, make out, realize, see, see daylight, see the light, take, take in, understand), ל�"עת (grasp, know, knowhow, perceive, understand). (various references)

Hungarian

megért (apprehend, got, perceive, realize, see, see the light, take in smth., to apprehend, to catch up, to comprehend, to conceit, to conceive of, to get, to get the message, to get the picture, to grasp, to perceive, to realize, to savvy, to tumble to, understand, vert), felfog (apprehend, grasp, perceive, realize, to apprehend, to comprehend, to conceit, to conceptualize, to entrap, to grasp, to intercept, to perceive, to realize, to savvy, to take in, to tumble to, understand). (various references)

Indonesian

ngarti (understand), memahami (apprehend, understand), faham (understand). (various references)

Italian

comprendere (apprehend, be understood, comprise, contain, cover, grasp, include, incorporate, penetrate, realize, take, to understand, understand). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

入れる (to admit, to bring in, to cast, to commit, to comprehend, to employ, to include, to insert, to introduce, to let in, to listen to, to pay, to put in, to set, to take in, to tolerate, to usher in). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いれる (to admit, to bring in, to cast, to commit, to comprehend, to employ, to include, to insert, to introduce, to let in, to listen to, to pay, to put in, to put into, to set, to take in, to tolerate, to usher in). (various references)

Korean 

이해하십시�" (understand). (various references)

Manx

toiggal (apprehension, construction, construe, figure; comprehension, realization, realize, understand). (various references)

Pig Latin

omprehendcay

Portuguese

compreender (bottom, catch, catch on, compass, comprise, conceive, consist, embrace, get, grasp, grip, have, imply, know, make out, perceive, plumb, read, realize, see, sense, sympathize, take in, to understand, twig, understand), alcançar (accomplish, achieve, acquire, arrive, attain, catch up, come, compass, earn, fetch, gain, get, get around, go, obtain, overtake, reach, reach for, run down, touch, understand), abranger (accomplish, achieve, compass, comprise, embrace, get, hug, imply, include, reach). (various references)

Romanian

cuprinde (accommodate, admit, aggregate, carry, come over, comprise, conquer, contain, cover, embosom, embrace, enlace, envelop, grasp, grip, Harbor, harbour, include, includes, overtake, prepossess, receive, reckon, see, seize, span), prinde (acquire, apprehend, attach, bind, book, captivate, capture, catch, catch hold of, clasp, clot, cop, Curdle, engage, ferret, find out, fish, fix, get hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, grow, hang, have, hit, hitch, intercept, nail, nip, overhear, pin down, reach, recruit, regain, round up, seize, set, shut, stitch, strike, succeed, tack, take, tie, work), pricepe (apprehend, catch, catch on, come it, compass, conceive, cotton, enter into, latch on, perceive, pick out, savvy, see, see into, seize, sense, take, take in, tumble to, understand), lumina (appear, beacon, brighten, burn, clarify, enlighten, explain, illuminate, lamp, light, light up, lighten, shine, teach, understand), include (add in, comprise, contain, count in, cover, embosom, embrace, enclose, include, take in), apuca (apprehend, captivate, capture, catch, clutch, experience, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, nab, nip, pull up, seize, snap, snatch, take), înţelege (agree, apprehend, bottom, catch, come it, compass, conceive, fathom, follow, grasp, interpret, latch on, make of, perceive, read, realize, savvy, scheme, see, see into, seize, take, tumble to, twig, understand). (various references)

Russian 

включать (add in, comprise, embodied, embody, embrace, gear, geared, include, including, insert, install, involve, key on, power on, subsume, switch in, take in, turn on), понимать (apprehend, aprehend, catch on, figure out, gain an insight into, get, get to know, perceive, realize, savvies, sense, take, twig, understand, understood). (various references)

Scottish

tuig (discern, perceive, realize, understand). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

spoznati (cognize, perceive), shvatiti (apprehend, apprise, apprize, catch, catch on, conceive, figure out, get, grasp, realize, sense, tumble, twig, understand), razumeti (apprehend, catch on, cognize, get it, see, understand), obuhvatiti (clasp, cover, envelop, implicate, include, involve, span), dokučiti (ascertain, fathom, get the hang, grasp). (various references)

Spanish

comprender (appreciate, bear in, catch, catch the point, come across, comprise, cover, dig, follow, get, grasp, include, incorporate, interpret, latch on, perceive, Pierce, realise, realize, savvy, see, see the light, take in, to understand, trace, twig, understand), incluir (add in, cover, inclose, include, incorporate, take in, to include), entender (believe, catch up, cotton on, figure up, get, grasp, hear, infer, intend, interpret, make out, mean, realise, realize, think, understand). (various references)

Swedish

förstå (catch, comprehending, figure out, follow, gather, grasp, have, Ken, know, latch on to, realize, see, take, understand). (various references)

Turkish

kavramak (absorb, apperceive, appreciate, apprehend, bite, catch, catch on, clasp, clench, clip, clutch, come home, compass, conceive, cup, dawn on, digest, discern, fathom, get, get a grip, get hold of, grasp, grip, hold, latch on to, nail, perceive, pick up, realize, see into, seize, sum up, twig, understand), kapsamak (be inclusive of, blanket, compass, comprise, contain, cover, embrace, encapsulate, enclose, encompass, implicate, incapsulate, inclose, include, involve, span, subsume), ihtiva etmek (comprise, contain, embody), idrak etmek (apperceive, get, grip, perceive, reach, realize, wake to), anlamak (absorb, accept, appreciate, apprehend, ascertain, be knowledgeable about, be up to, catch, catch on, click, compass, conceive, cotton on to, dawn on, deduce, dig, discern, discover, distinguish, fathom, feel, figure out, get, get a grip, get a grip on, get the message, grasp, grip, latch on to, make of, pick out, read, realize, rumble, savvy, see, see into, seize, sense, sum up, take in, twig, understand, wake to, waken, work out), algılamak (perceive, pick up, sense). (various references)

Ukrainian

включати (add in, comprise, cut in, embody, introduce, put, take in), охоплювати (blanket, comprise, cover, cut across, encircle, grip, grow on, lap, overtake, overwhelm, prepossess, rap, wrap), зрозуміти (apprehend, catch, conceive, get, grasp, gripe, twig), збагнути (apprehend, catch, conceive, gather one's wits, get at, penetrate, tumble to). (various references)

Welsh

cynnwys (comprise, contain, contents, hold, include), dirnad (apprehend, discern), amgyffred (comprehension, comprise). (various references)

comprehendere, consecuta, consecutam, consecuti, consecutus, consequamur, consequantur, consequaris, consequebantur, consequens, consequenti, consequeretur, consequeris, consequi, consequitur, ininterpretabilis, intellego intellexi intellectum, interpretandi, interpretantes, interpretaretur, interpretata, interpretatum, interpretatur, interpretem, interpretes, interpretetur, interpretor, prendere, tene, teneamus, teneant, teneat, teneatur, tenebam, tenebant, tenebantur, tenebas, tenebat, tenebatque, tenebatur, teneberis, tenebis, tenebit, tenebitur, tenebo, tenebunt, tenendam, tenens, tenensque, tenent, tenente, tenentem, tenentes, tenentium, tenentur, tenere, tenerem, tenerent, teneret, teneri, tenes, tenet, tenete, tenetis, tenetur, tenuerint, tenueris, tenuerit, tenuerunt, tenui, tenuisse, tenuisti, tenuit, video vidi visum. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "comprehend": comprehended, comprehendible, comprehending, comprehends. (additional references)

Words containing "comprehend": uncomprehended, uncomprehending, uncomprehendingly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Comprehend" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: comoreans, comperhend, comprehand, comprehen, comprehendo, comprhend, comptehend, conprehend. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: choremen, compered.

-3 letters: chomped, chomper, chromed, cohered, compeer, compend, compere, encoder, encored, herdmen, homered, moderne, morphed, ochered, penoche, perched, phoneme, precode, proceed.

-4 letters: cheder, cheero, chored, chrome, cohere, comped, corned, creped, crepon, decern, dehorn, deperm, depone, drench, echoed, echoer, emerod, encode, encore, hempen, hereon, horned, mender, modern, moreen, normed, ochred, omened, opened, opener.

+1 letter: comprehends.

+2 letters: comprehended.

+3 letters: comprehending.

+4 letters: comprehendible, nephrectomized, uncomprehended.

+5 letters: uncomprehending.