comprehension (ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnʃən
)
Definitions
noun
- the act or capacity of understanding
- the state of including or comprising something; comprehensiveness
- education an exercise consisting of a previously unseen passage of text with related questions, designed to test a student's understanding esp of a foreign language
- logic obsolete the attributes implied by a given concept or term; connotation
Synonyms
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- British English:
comprehension
Comprehension is the ability to understand something or the process of understanding something.This situation was beyond her comprehension.ˌkɒmprɪˈhɛnʃən NOUN This situation was beyond her comprehension.
- Spanish:
comprensión
nf
- French:
compréhension
nf
- German: Begriffsvermögen nnt
- Chinese: 理解 n
- Arabic: إِدْراك n
- Portuguese: compreensão nf
- Russian: понимание nnt
- Croatian: shvaćanje nnt
- Czech: porozumění nnt
- Danish: forståelse nutr
- Dutch: begrip nnt
- Finnish: ymmärtäminen n
- Greek: κατανόηση nf
- Italian: comprensione nf
- Japanese: 理解 n
- Korean: 이해 n
- Norwegian: oppfatning nm
- Polish: zrozumienie nnt
- Brazilian Portuguese: compreensão nf
- European Spanish:
comprensión
nf
- Swedish: förståelse nutr
- Thai: ความเข้าใจ n
- Turkish: anlama n
- Vietnamese: sự hiểu n
Usage examples
That much at least the monks had given him: a comprehension of somebody else's despair.
, GALILEE (2001)The moot issue, of course, is your comprehension of the risk-reward trade-off.
Business Today (1998)Torture is wrong because it is an assault on the sanctity of life, a betrayal of trust which almost defies comprehension.
The Advertiser, Sunday Mail (2005)They showed a similar lack of comprehension at an earlier hearing.
Times, Sunday Times (2002)The second part, the Original Gate, is beyond rational comprehension.
, Fire in the Lotus - the dynamic Buddhism of Nichiren (1991)