comprehending
Getting the meaning
Comprehending is the present participle of comprehend, meaning to grasp mentally or understand fully.
It suggests active engagement with meaning rather than passive reception: She sat comprehending the implications of the news.
Comprehending can also mean including or encompassing: a theory comprehending all known phenomena.
Mental comprehension of something
- graspingGreedy for wealth
- perceivingBecoming conscious of something
- reasoningDrawing logical conclusions
- processingSystematic operation on data
interpreting · recognizing · discerning · fathoming · apprehending · deciphering · absorbing · assimilating
Grasping what's true
- epiphanySudden profound insight
- eurekaDiscovery triumph cry
- ahaExclamation of realization
- breakthroughSudden important advance
clarity · illumination · enlightenment · revelation · discovery · discernment · perspicacity · penetration
Including all within bounds
- includingContaining as part
- embracingHolding warmly, willingly accepting
- coveringLayer that shields or hides
- containingHolding within limits
incorporating · taking in · spanning · subsuming · encapsulating · accounting for · considering · entailing
understanding
Mental comprehension of something
- graspingGreedy for wealth
- perceivingBecoming conscious of something
- reasoningDrawing logical conclusions
processing · interpreting · recognizing · discerning · fathoming · apprehending · deciphering · absorbing · assimilating · conceiving
realization
Grasping what's true
breakthrough · clarity · illumination · enlightenment · revelation · discovery · discernment · perspicacity · penetration · acumen
encompassing
Including all within bounds
- includingContaining as part
- embracingHolding warmly, willingly accepting
- coveringLayer that shields or hides
containing · incorporating · taking in · spanning · subsuming · encapsulating · accounting for · considering · entailing · involving
- thinkingthinking, reasoning, thought, ponder, contemplate
- cognitionthinking, reasoning, thought, cognition, remembering
- understandingunderstand, grasp, fathom, follow, know
- graspinggrasping, apprehending, understanding, catching, getting
- Reading Statesskimming, scanning, browsing, studying, speed reading
- code-breaking verbsdecrypting, deciphering, cracking, unscrambling, solving
comprehendingmisunderstanding
Failure to grasp meaning
uncomprehending · confused · bewildered · baffled · perplexed
comprehendinguncomprehending
Lacking grasp of meaning
unsympathetic · intolerant · excluding · harsh · judgmental
comprehendingexcluding
Leaving something out
omitting · leaving out · rejecting · ignoring · overlooking