uncomprehensive

adj — 2 senses

uncomprehensive

adj

/ˌʌnkɒmpɹəˈhɛnsɪv/

Etymology From un- + comprehensive.

1

Archaic Unable to comprehend.

  • narrow-spirited, uncomprehensive zealots1692–1717, 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]:
Derived terms
uncomprehensively, uncomprehensiveness

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