uncomprehended
- adjective
- /ˌʌnˌkɒmprɪˈhɛndɪd/
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incomprendido
- The artist's complex paintings often felt uncomprehended by critics.
On the one hand, the whole, though uncomprehended, is prior to the moments.
- On the one hand, the whole, though uncomprehended, is prior to the moments.
- But it's moments have the character of being uncomprehended.
- The actuality is an uncomprehended sensuous actuality.
Examples
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Despite his best efforts, she left the discussion feeling uncomprehended and frustrated.
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On the one hand, the whole, though uncomprehended, is prior to the moments.
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Finally, after months, there is the simple, uncomprehended economics of transportation.
Academic text (1991) -
Most importantly for our purposes here, the performative power of the uncomprehended word lies in its exotic or foreign qualities.
Academic text (1996) -
The actuality is an uncomprehended sensuous actuality.
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The difference between the uncomprehended metaphor and the undetected joke seems to be this: if I did understand the green beer metaphor, then I could proceed with you to the beer, with a tongue toward checking its ripeness.
Academic text (1990) -
Even those historians familiar with the genesis and character of the Prussian state, including its ideological tradition of bloody expansionism, intuit that these situations contained some activity of an uncomprehended fatality that eludes analysis in terms of historical causality.
Blog text (2) -
Many scientific theories remain uncomprehended by the general public.
Synonyms
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Hard to read or understand
A thing people do not fully understand
Not understood or noticed by most people
Something people have not explained or given a meaning
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
uncomprehended = comprehended (transparent) = un + comprehend + ed
The prefix 'un-' clearly negates the meaning of 'comprehended', forming an adjective that means 'not understood'.
Etymology
Uncomprehended starts with un- meaning 'not' and comes from comprehend, which comes from the old Latin root prehendere meaning 'to grasp'. Think of 'grasp' as holding an idea in your hand, so uncomprehended means 'not grasped' or not fully understood.