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uncomprehensive en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˌʌnkɒmpɹəˈhɛnsɪv/
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Etymology

From un- + comprehensive.

Meanings

1. (archaic) Unable to comprehend.
   • narrow-spirited, uncomprehensive zealots 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
2. (obsolete) incomprehensible
   • Finds bottom in th’uncomprehensive deep. c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

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Deriveds

uncomprehensiveness · uncomprehensively