Antonyms for comprehension
ˌkɒm prɪˈhɛn ʃəncom·pre·hen·sion

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1. comprehensionnoun

   Synonyms:
   understanding

2. comprehensionnoun

   thorough understanding

   Synonyms:
   understanding

3. comprehensionnoun

   The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.

   Synonyms:
   understanding

4. comprehensionnoun

   a compact syntax for generating a list in some functional programming languages

   Synonyms:
   understanding

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1. comprehension

   Knowledge is all that the mind knows, from whatever source derived or obtained, or by whatever process; the aggregate of facts, truths, or principles acquired or retained by the mind, including alike the intuitions native to the mind and all that has been learned respecting phenomena, causes, laws, principles, literature, etc. There is a tendency to regard knowledge as accurate and systematic, and to a certain degree complete. Information is knowledge of fact, real or supposed, derived from persons, books, or observation, and is regarded as casual and haphazard. We say of a studious man that he has a great store of knowledge, or of an intelligent man of the world, that he has a fund of varied information. Lore is used only in poetic or elevated style, for accumulated knowledge, as of a people or age, or in a more limited sense for learning or erudition. We speak of perception of external objects, apprehension of intellectual truth. Simple perception gives a limited knowledge of external objects, merely as such; the cognition of the same objects is a knowledge of them in some relation; cognizance is the formal or official recognition of something as an object of knowledge; we take cognizance of it. Intuition is primary knowledge antecedent to all teaching or reasoning, experience is knowledge that has entered directly into one's own life; as, a child's experience that fire will burn. Learning is much higher than information, being preeminently wide and systematic knowledge, the result of long, assiduous study; erudition is recondite learning secured only by extraordinary industry, opportunity, and ability. Compare ACQUAINTANCE; EDUCATION; SCIENCE; WISDOM.

   Antonyms:
   ignorance, illiteracy, inexperience, misapprehension, misconception, misunderstanding, rudeness, unfamiliarity

   Synonyms:
   acquaintance, apprehension, cognition, cognizance, erudition, experience, information, intelligence, intuition, knowledge, learning, light, lore, perception, recognition, scholarship, science, wisdom

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1. comprehension

   Antonyms:
   misunderstanding, misconception

   Synonyms:
   understanding, conception, capacity, perception, apprehension

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1. • Understanding

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1. comprehensionnoun

   an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result)

   "how you can do that is beyond my comprehension"; "he was famous for his comprehension of American literature"

   Antonyms:
   incomprehension

   Synonyms:
   inclusion

2. inclusion, comprehensionnoun

   the relation of comprising something

   "he admired the inclusion of so many ideas in such a short work"

   Antonyms:
   incomprehension

   Synonyms:
   cellular inclusion, inclusion, inclusion body

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1. comprehensionnoun

   Antonyms:
   incomprehension, inapprehension

   Synonyms:
   understanding, apprehension

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1. comprehension

   Synonyms:
   Apperception Note: Comprehension is widely preferred, entry is included for cross-reference purposes
   

How to use comprehension in a sentence?

1. Ethan Bearman:

   It is beyond comprehension what this is all about. Blue Flame Medical is devoted to getting masks and ventilators to the people in Maryland who so desperately need them. Blue Flame Medical has a contract with the State of Maryland to deliver 1.5 million masks and 110 ventilators by June 30, and Blue Flame Medical fully intends to honor that contract.

2. John Fitzgerald Kennedy:

   There are three things which are real God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third.

3. Millis Police Detective Domenic Tiberi:

   He is a decent kid, quiet, but friends with a lot of the guys here, it is beyond comprehension why somebody would go to the lengths to do this.

4. The Swedish Academy:

   By means of her extraordinary method – a carefully composed collage of human voices – Alexievich deepens our comprehension of an entire era.

5. Barbara King:

   Koko shows definite comprehension of spoken English.

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