See discomprehend on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_links": [
[
"dis-",
"dis-#English:_not"
],
[
"comprehend",
"comprehend#English"
]
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dis<id:not>",
"3": "comprehend"
},
"expansion": "dis- + comprehend",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From dis- + comprehend.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "discomprehends",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "discomprehending",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "discomprehended",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "discomprehended",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "discomprehend (third-person singular simple present discomprehends, present participle discomprehending, simple past and past participle discomprehended)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms prefixed with dis- (not)",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
75,
89
]
],
"ref": "1933, E. E. Cummings, EIMI, New York, N.Y.: William Sloane Associates, published [1949], →OCLC, page 408:",
"text": "Wait. &. Rings: dinglingadinglingding—. Pause. A, girlface; peeps: ½opens; discomprehends, very suspic (quite à la can you imagine speakeasy) iously receives fuzzscribbling (quickshuts-vanishes).",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
7,
20
]
],
"ref": "1985, Tom Weller, Science Made Stupid […], Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, cover:",
"text": "How to Discomprehend the World Around Us",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
29,
45
]
],
"ref": "1997 September 11, Christopher Browne, “Visual Hard Disk defragmenter for Linux?”, in comp.os.linux.development.system (Usenet), archived from the original on 24 Feb 2026:",
"text": "If that's the case, I may be discomprehending how VFS works. Which is quite possible.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
519,
532
]
],
"ref": "1997 September 14, Wesley R. Elsberry, “Cosmology, Evolution, Abiogenesis: An Intelligent Discussion”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet), archived from the original on 24 Feb 2026:",
"text": "[Richard] Dawkins presented the \"weasel\" program for a reason: many anti-evolutionists deny that natural selection can do any better than \"blind chance\" as a process. \"Weasel\" handily demonstrates that NS is *much* better as a process than \"blind chance\". \"Weasel\" was not intended to address *all* criticisms of NS, just the \"NS is no better than blind chance as a process\" objection. 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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
38,
53
]
],
"ref": "2006 June 10, James Gifford, “Home Wiring”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet), archived from the original on 24 Feb 2026:",
"text": "Not because he either comprehended or discomprehended what you said. It was because he was mentally searching for the paragraph in the Official Things Rat Shack Employees Are Allowed To Know book that covered what you said.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To not comprehend."
],
"id": "en-discomprehend-en-verb-JYk4zq6S",
"links": [
[
"comprehend",
"comprehend"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) To not comprehend."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
"word": "discomprehend"
}
{
"etymology_links": [
[
"dis-",
"dis-#English:_not"
],
[
"comprehend",
"comprehend#English"
]
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dis<id:not>",
"3": "comprehend"
},
"expansion": "dis- + comprehend",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From dis- + comprehend.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "discomprehends",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "discomprehending",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "discomprehended",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "discomprehended",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "discomprehend (third-person singular simple present discomprehends, present participle discomprehending, simple past and past participle discomprehended)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms prefixed with dis- (not)",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
75,
89
]
],
"ref": "1933, E. E. Cummings, EIMI, New York, N.Y.: William Sloane Associates, published [1949], →OCLC, page 408:",
"text": "Wait. &. Rings: dinglingadinglingding—. Pause. A, girlface; peeps: ½opens; discomprehends, very suspic (quite à la can you imagine speakeasy) iously receives fuzzscribbling (quickshuts-vanishes).",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
7,
20
]
],
"ref": "1985, Tom Weller, Science Made Stupid […], Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, cover:",
"text": "How to Discomprehend the World Around Us",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
29,
45
]
],
"ref": "1997 September 11, Christopher Browne, “Visual Hard Disk defragmenter for Linux?”, in comp.os.linux.development.system (Usenet), archived from the original on 24 Feb 2026:",
"text": "If that's the case, I may be discomprehending how VFS works. Which is quite possible.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
519,
532
]
],
"ref": "1997 September 14, Wesley R. Elsberry, “Cosmology, Evolution, Abiogenesis: An Intelligent Discussion”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet), archived from the original on 24 Feb 2026:",
"text": "[Richard] Dawkins presented the \"weasel\" program for a reason: many anti-evolutionists deny that natural selection can do any better than \"blind chance\" as a process. \"Weasel\" handily demonstrates that NS is *much* better as a process than \"blind chance\". \"Weasel\" was not intended to address *all* criticisms of NS, just the \"NS is no better than blind chance as a process\" objection. 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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
38,
53
]
],
"ref": "2006 June 10, James Gifford, “Home Wiring”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet), archived from the original on 24 Feb 2026:",
"text": "Not because he either comprehended or discomprehended what you said. It was because he was mentally searching for the paragraph in the Official Things Rat Shack Employees Are Allowed To Know book that covered what you said.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To not comprehend."
],
"links": [
[
"comprehend",
"comprehend"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) To not comprehend."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
"word": "discomprehend"
}
Download raw JSONL data for discomprehend meaning in All languages combined (3.4kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-10-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.