COMPREHENDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does comprehended mean? 

• COMPREHENDED (adjective)
  The adjective COMPREHENDED has 1 sense:

1. fully understood or grasped

  Familiarity information: COMPREHENDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPREHENDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fully understood or grasped

Synonyms:

appreciated; apprehended; comprehended

Context example:

a thing comprehended is a thing known as fully as it can be known

Similar:

understood (fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or explanation)

 Context examples 

Rosa Dartle's keen glance comprehended all of us.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In this danger Kitty also is comprehended.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Something not easily done, accomplished, comprehended, or solved.

(Difficulty, NCI Thesaurus)

As I searched the vacant stretch of water before me, I comprehended thoroughly the need for haste if we were to recover any of our men.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This bold surmise, however, she soon learnt comprehended but half the fact.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I saw his fallibilities: I comprehended them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Fortunately for him, Highbury, including Randalls in the same parish, and Donwell Abbey in the parish adjoining, the seat of Mr. Knightley, comprehended many such.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The forgiveness, at first, indeed, as was reasonable, comprehended only Robert; and Lucy, who had owed his mother no duty and therefore could have transgressed none, still remained some weeks longer unpardoned.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

In choosing persons for all employments, they have more regard to good morals than to great abilities; for, since government is necessary to mankind, they believe, that the common size of human understanding is fitted to some station or other; and that Providence never intended to make the management of public affairs a mystery to be comprehended only by a few persons of sublime genius, of which there seldom are three born in an age: but they suppose truth, justice, temperance, and the like, to be in every man’s power; the practice of which virtues, assisted by experience and a good intention, would qualify any man for the service of his country, except where a course of study is required.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

My days were spent in close attention, that I might more speedily master the language; and I may boast that I improved more rapidly than the Arabian, who understood very little and conversed in broken accents, whilst I comprehended and could imitate almost every word that was spoken.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)