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UNCOMPREHENSIVE

Definition: UNCOMPREHENSIVE

UNCOMPREHENSIVE

Adjective

1. Incomprehensible.

2. Unable to comprehend.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "UNCOMPREHENSIVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

"UNCOMPREHENSIVE" is a common misspelling or typo for: incomprehensive.


Modern Translation: UNCOMPREHENSIVE

Language Translations for "UNCOMPREHENSIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

undifferenziert (simplistic, undifferentiated, uniform). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

omprehensiveuncay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "UNCOMPREHENSIVE"

Words rhyming with "UNCOMPREHENSIVE" (pronounced 'Un*com`pre*hen"sive'): Aborsive, Abrasive, Abusive, Accessive, Adhesive, Admissive, Aggressive, Allusive, Amusive, Animadversive, Anticonvulsive, Appeasive, Applausive, Apprehensive, Appulsive, Ascensive, Assuasive, Coextensive, Cohesive, Collisive, Collusive, Commissive, Comprehensive, Compulsive, Concessive, Conclusive, Concussive, Confusive, Congressive, Conversive, Convulsive, Corrasive, Corresponsive, Decursive, Delusive, illusive, impassive, incisive, inclusive, incomprehensive, inconclusive, incursive, indecisive, inexpensive, inoffensive, intrusive, invasive, Nonsubmissive, Obtrusive, Occasive. (additional references)

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Anagrams: UNCOMPREHENSIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-h-i-m-n-n-o-p-r-s-u-v"

-2 letters: comprehensive.

-3 letters: omnipresence, proveniences.

-4 letters: mesonephric, prominences, provenience.

-5 letters: ceremonies, ichneumons, inherences, overmuches, prehension, prominence, proscenium, recompense, reconvenes, servicemen.

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

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Alternative Orthography: UNCOMPREHENSIVE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 4E 43 4F 4D 50 52 45 48 45 4E 53 49 56 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    -.-.    ---    --    .--.    .-.    .    ....    .    -.    ...    ..    ...-    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01001110 01000011 01001111 01001101 01010000 01010010 01000101 01001000 01000101 01001110 01010011 01001001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#78 &#67 &#79 &#77 &#80 &#82 &#69 &#72 &#69 &#78 &#83 &#73 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 004E 0043 004F 004D 0050 0052 0045 0048 0045 004E 0053 0049 0056 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

554837494750523942394853435639

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Non-English Dictionaries with "UNCOMPREHENSIVE"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglisch
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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