Comprehension is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COMPREHENSION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act or action of grasping with the intellect
• the ability to understand something
• the setting of questions on a set text to test understanding, as a school exercise
• inclusion.
• the inclusion of Nonconformists within the Established Church of England (as proposed in the 17th to 19th centuries but not adopted).
• The act of comprehending, containing, or comprising; inclusion.
• That which is comprehended or inclosed within narrow limits; a summary; an epitome.
• The capacity of the mind to perceive and understand; the power, act, or process of grasping with the intellect; perception; understanding; as, a comprehension of abstract principles.
• The complement of attributes which make up the notion signified by a general term.
• A figure by which the name of a whole is put for a part, or that of a part for a whole, or a definite number for an indefinite.
• an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result)
• the relation of comprising something
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act or action of grasping with the intellect; understanding; knowledge gained by comprehending; the capacity for understanding fully

Words related to COMPREHENSION

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Words that contain COMPREHENSION

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How to use COMPREHENSION in a sentence

• They decided that the joyous array of early mediaeval literature was full of promise, though something of its tone and temper was past the comprehension of pagan goddesses.
• He was sensitive in the extreme, and any lack of sympathy or comprehension made him retire immediately into his shell.
• This was something they had never before experienced, and it was beyond their comprehension.
• Lady Bracondale adored Hector and was fond of Anne, but had no comprehension of either.
• At last he acknowledged defeat, or lost comprehension of the struggle.
• It needed a night of sleep to nurse her comprehension back to all that she had been through.
• This philosophy is based upon a clearer vision and a more profound comprehension of human life.
• Projects of comprehension had ended in failure before the eighteenth century opened.
• Some of their leaders were inclined at one time to favour a scheme of comprehension.
• Church comprehension never afterwards became, in any direct form, a question for much practical discussion.
• Both modes of investigation are indispensable for acquiring a full comprehension of the expressions employed and the thoughts intended.
• Now it was a time to go very gently with her, until she found her footing in fuller comprehension again.
• The broad principles of base-ball are not by any means difficult of comprehension.
• A light of astonishment, comprehension, relief suddenly gleamed in their place.
• The plan, if plan there is, transcends our sense and comprehension.
• He had a curious fashion of using the ancient nomenclature of the Common law where it had passed out of the knowledge even of most lawyers and the comprehension of common men.
• This is a nearness which is sanctified from the comprehension of the minds.
• Time was a thing now quite out of her comprehension.
• Free will and inexorable Law difficult of comprehension, 689-u.
• A simple game enough, not difficult of comprehension, yet vastly exciting, if one may form a judgment of its qualities through watching the faces of the players.
• I have no patience with such of my sex as disdain to let themselves sometimes down to the comprehension of yours.
• It was the comprehension of men, and not of measures, he was after, and he got what he sought.
• Frayling regarded her with a curious lack of intelligent interest or comprehension.
• I understood that for the comprehension of life, it was essential that life should be something more than an evil and meaningless thing revealed by reason.
• When he was dead and we stopped trembling, I had a flash of comprehension.
• The happening had been too quick for her eyes to follow, but her comprehension leaped to the truth.
• Here, under the ringing walls of the steel mills, he got a fresh comprehension of the bitter, restless virility of the younger man.
• Man is encompassed on all sides by inexorable laws, produced and perpetuated by a power beyond and outside the comprehension.
• Those who loved art found treasures in his galleries, and wide comprehension and finished tastes in their master.
• To him alone, in all these creations, are given the faculties necessary to a comprehension of the nature of all of these, as well as their uses.

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