uncomprehending

Speech parts

1. uncomprehending - Adjective

2. uncomprehending - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

lacking understanding

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

slow thick confused dense blind blank vacant dull ignorant stupid dim insensitive dumb puzzled baffled
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Antonyms

airy active accept aware distinguish alive
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Examples

Still falls the Rain - Still falls the Blood from the Starved Man's wounded Side: He bears in His Heart all wounds, - those of the light that died, The last faint spark In the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending dark... Edith Sitwell

They had stared at her with great uncomprehending eyes. Eyes that questioned nothing and asked everything. Unblinking and unabashed, they stared up at her. The end of the world lay in their eyes, and the beginning, and all the waste in bewteen. Toni Morrison

tried to explain to her uncomprehending husband Source: Internet

Ackerley and Gontarski (2004) Broadly speaking, the plays deal with the subject of despair and the will to survive in spite of that despair, in the face of an uncomprehending and incomprehensible world. Source: Internet

I don’t think fooling us people into responding emotionally to music that was composed by an uncomprehending computer would be quite as hard to achieve. Source: Internet

The Definitive Biography, London: Harper Collins, 2008, p.138 "Hancock's persona of the pompous loser out of his depth in an uncomprehending society still informs many programmes today", according to Phil Wickham. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

uncompoundedness uncomprehend uncomprehended uncomprehendingly uncomprehendingness uncomprehensible