uncomprehensive
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + comprehensive.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌʌnkɒmpɹəˈhɛnsɪv/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]uncomprehensive (comparative more uncomprehensive, superlative most uncomprehensive)
- (archaic) Unable to comprehend.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
- narrow-spirited, uncomprehensive zealots
- (obsolete) incomprehensible
- c. 1602, 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]:
- Finds bottom in th’uncomprehensive deep.