discomprehend

present singular third person discomprehends · participle present discomprehending · participle past discomprehended · past discomprehended

1. rareTo not comprehend.

   How to Discomprehend the World Around Us

   1985, Tom Weller, Science Made Stupid […], Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, cover

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   Wait. &. Rings: dinglingadinglingding—. Pause. A, girlface; peeps: ½opens; discomprehends, very suspic (quite à la can you imagine speakeasy) iously receives fuzzscribbling (quickshuts-vanishes).

   1933, E. E. Cummings, EIMI, New York, N.Y.: William Sloane Associates, published [1949], →OCLC, page 408

   If that's the case, I may be discomprehending how VFS works. Which is quite possible.

   1997 September 11, Christopher Browne, “Visual Hard Disk defragmenter for Linux?”, in comp.os.linux.development.system (Usenet), archived from the original on 24 Feb 2026

   [Richard] Dawkins presented the "weasel" program for a reason: many anti-evolutionists deny that natural selection can do any better than "blind chance" as a process. "Weasel" handily demonstrates that NS is *much* better as a process than "blind chance". "Weasel" was not intended to address *all* criticisms of NS, just the "NS is no better than blind chance as a process" objection. Dawkins says this in his book quite clearly; why David [Ford] was able to pick up the bit about distant ideal targets but managed to discomprehend the reason for "weasel" is unclear.

   1997 September 14, Wesley R. Elsberry, “Cosmology, Evolution, Abiogenesis: An Intelligent Discussion”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet), archived from the original on 24 Feb 2026

   Not because he either comprehended or discomprehended what you said. It was because he was mentally searching for the paragraph in the Official Things Rat Shack Employees Are Allowed To Know book that covered what you said.

   2006 June 10, James Gifford, “Home Wiring”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet), archived from the original on 24 Feb 2026