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discomprehend

discomprehend verb: to not comprehend.

Verb

discomprehend (third-person singular simple present discomprehends, present participle discomprehending, simple past and past participle discomprehended)

  1. (rare) To not comprehend.
    • Wait. &. Rings: dinglingadinglingding—. Pause. A, girlface; peeps: ½opens; discomprehends, very suspic (quite à la can you imagine speakeasy) iously receives fuzzscribbling (quickshuts-vanishes).1933, E. E. Cummings, EIMI, New York, N.Y.: William Sloane Associates, published [1949], →OCLC, page 408
    • How to Discomprehend the World Around Us1985, Tom Weller, Science Made Stupid […], Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, cover

Examples of discomprehend in a sentence

  • If that's the case, I may be discomprehending how VFS works.1997 September 11, Christopher Browne, “Visual Hard Disk defragmenter for Linux?”, in comp.os.linux.development.system (Usenet), archived...
  • Dawkins says this in his book quite clearly; why David [Ford] was able to pick up the bit about distant ideal targets but managed to discomprehend the reason for "weasel" is unclear.1997 September 14, Wesley R. Elsberry, “Cosmology, Evolution, Abiogenesis: An Intelligent Discussion”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet), archived...
  • Not because he either comprehended or discomprehended what you said.2006 June 10, James Gifford, “Home Wiring”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet), archived from the original on 24 Feb 2026:

Forms of discomprehend

third-person singular presentdiscomprehends
present participlediscomprehending
past participlediscomprehended
pastdiscomprehended

Origin of discomprehend

From dis- + comprehend.

Questions about discomprehend

What does discomprehend mean?
Discomprehend means to not comprehend.
How do you use discomprehend in a sentence?
If that's the case, I may be discomprehending how VFS works.
What part of speech is discomprehend?
Discomprehend is a verb.
What is the past tense of discomprehend?
The past tense of discomprehend is discomprehended.

Words near discomprehend in the dictionary

  1. discomposing
  2. discomposingly
  3. discomposition
  4. discomposure
  5. discomposures
  6. discomprehend
  7. discomprehended
  8. discomprehending
  9. discomprehends
  10. discompt
  11. discompted

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