uncomprehendingly
In confused ignorance
Uncomprehendingly describes doing something without understanding—looking, staring, listening while failing to grasp what's happening: She stared uncomprehendingly at the legal documents.
The word emphasizes the gap between perceiving and making sense of something: He nodded uncomprehendingly as the doctor explained the diagnosis.
Without any expression
- vacantlyWith absent expression
- expressionlesslyWithout showing feeling
- dazedlyIn bewildered manner
- numblyWithout physical sensation
impassively · deadpan · stolid · glazed · unseeing · staring · wordlessly · mutely
Thoroughly puzzled and confused
- baffledUtterly unable to understand
- puzzledConfused by something unclear
- mystifiedUtterly unable to understand
- perplexedThoroughly confused, uncertain
confounded · nonplussed · flummoxed · stumped · dumbfounded · befuddled · disoriented · disconcerted
Lacking knowledge of something
- obliviousLacking any awareness
- unknowingLacking awareness or information
- unseeingLacking visual perception
- heedlessCareless of consequences
unmindful · unsuspecting · unperceiving · blindly · cluelessly · ignorantly · unwittingly · naively
blankly
Without any expression
- vacantlyWith absent expression
- expressionlesslyWithout showing feeling
- dazedlyIn bewildered manner
numbly · impassively · deadpan · stolid · glazed · unseeing · staring · wordlessly · mutely · silently
bewildered
Thoroughly puzzled and confused
- baffledUtterly unable to understand
- puzzledConfused by something unclear
- mystifiedUtterly unable to understand
perplexed · confounded · nonplussed · flummoxed · stumped · dumbfounded · befuddled · disoriented · disconcerted · vexed
unaware
Lacking knowledge of something
- obliviousLacking any awareness
- unknowingLacking awareness or information
- unseeingLacking visual perception
heedless · unmindful · unsuspecting · unperceiving · blindly · cluelessly · ignorantly · unwittingly · naively · innocently
uncomprehendinglycomprehendingly
With clear mental grasp
understandingly · knowingly · perceptively · insightfully · clearly