Word Meanings - COMPREHEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database
prehendere to grasp, seize; prae before + hendere (used only in 1. To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire. Who hath . . . comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure. Is. xl. 12. 2. To take in
Additional info about word: COMPREHEND
prehendere to grasp, seize; prae before + hendere (used only in 1. To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire. Who hath . . . comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure. Is. xl. 12. 2. To take in or include by construction or implication; to comprise; to imply. Comprehended all in this one word, Discretion. Hobbes. And if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying. Rom. xiii. 9. 3. To take into the mind; to grasp with the understanding; to apprehend the meaning of; to understand. At a loss to comprehend the question. W. Irwing. Great things doeth he, which we can not comprehend. Job. xxxvii. 5. Syn. -- To contain; include; embrace; comprise; inclose; grasp; embody; involve; imply; apprehend; imagine; conceive; understand. See Apprehend.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMPREHEND)
- Apprehend
- Comprehend
- understand
- take
- expect
- seize
- conceive
- arrest
- fancy
- dread
- imagine
- presume
- anticipate
- fear
- conjecture
- Catch
- Take
- grip
- clutch
- capture
- secure
- ensnare
- snatch
- hit
- comprehend
- overtake
- apprehend
- Comprise Embrace
- include
- involve
- contain
- imply
- Contain
- Hold
- comprise
- embrace
- inclose
- Embrace
- Clasp
- hug
- close
- embody
- incorporate
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COMPREHEND)
- Release
- dismiss
- liberate
- free
- discharge
- expedite
- Open
- initiate
- conduct
- protract
- Liberate
- release
- emancipate
- Exclude
- except
- discard
- bar
- omit
- reject
- Computation
- calculation
- inference
- reckoning
- proof
- deduction
- Loosen
- betray
- surrender
- expose
- imperil
- endanger
- open
Related words: (words related to COMPREHEND)
- DISMISSIVE
Giving dismission. - EXCEPT
1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak. - IMPLY
1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is - RELEASE
To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back. - RECKON
reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the - RECKONER
One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden. - DISMISSAL
Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley. - EXPOSER
One who exposes or discloses. - INVOLVEDNESS
The state of being involved. - DREADNOUGHT
1. A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by - CLASPER
1. One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. "The claspers of vines." Derham. One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea. One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side - CONTAINMENT
That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller. - COMPUTATION
1. The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon. 2. The result of computation; the amount computed. Syn. -- Reckoning; calculation; estimate; - SNATCH
1. To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss. When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. Pope. 2. To seize and transport away; to rap. "Snatch me to heaven." Thomson. Syn. -- To - CONJECTURER
One who conjectures. Hobbes. - CLOSEHANDED
Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n. - EXCEPTIONER
One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton. - UNDERSTANDINGLY
In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved. - CATCHWORK
A work or artificial watercourse for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain. - APPREHEND
of, seize; prae before + -hendere ; akin to Gr. 1. To take or seize; to take hold of. We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor. 2. Hence: To take or seize by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal. 3. To take hold of with - SAFE-CONDUCT
That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak. - SCATCH
A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth. Bailey. - INEXPECTABLE
Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall. - MISCOMPUTATION
Erroneous computation; false reckoning. - UNEXPECTATION
Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall. - UNCLOSE
1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal. - ENCLOSE
To inclose. See Inclose. - SELF-REPROOF
The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment. - PARCLOSE
A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook. - HIGH-PROOF
1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak. - UNCOMPREHEND
To fail to comprehend. Daniel.