uncomprehendedly

comparative more uncomprehendedly · superlative most uncomprehendedly

1. uncommonWith a lack of comprehension.

   “Pardon me,” said a gentle voice at his elbow, “but I’m afraid you’ve lost something?” […] / “Madam?” the gray man spoke uncomprehendedly. / “You have lost something, haven’t you?”

   1912 July 1, Helen F. Brennan, “The Evening Story: An Affair of ‘Honor’”, in The Duluth Herald, volume XXX, number 71, Duluth, Minn., →OCLC, page 10, column 3

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   At 12.55, Marsh and Pearce, accompanied by a driver, horse, and buggy, left Oakville. A mile outside in the heart of the storm Pearce faltered a second. Marsh dropped into the road beside him. “Better quit it,” he advised. Pearce, his face livid with the fierce pounding of the storm, stared at him uncomprehendedly a second. Then his numbed senses gathered the import of the advice.

   1908 January 24, “Pearce Battles Blizzard and Makes Hamilton-Toronto Run […]”, in The Toronto Daily Star, 16th year, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 4

   “Tail shaft gone?” cried the captain. / “Like a carrot,” was the second mate’s answer. / He was a man of slow wits in all things unconnected with his trade, and he stared uncomprehendedly at the skipper’s laugh.

   1913 September 28, Perceval Gibbon, “The Mate of the ‘Gatwick’”, in The Kansas City Star, volume 34, number 11, Kansas City, Mo., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12O, column 7

   When given her bill at the end of the day’s ride by the driver who felt that he had a mighty queer customer in the rear seat, she looked at it uncomprehendedly, he told the authorities. “Don’t you have any money,” he is reported to have asked her.

   1927 October 1, “Takes Lengthy Taxi Ride; Is in Hospital: Pretty Woman Lost in Ventura but Was Taken Home”, in Ventura Free Press, volume 51, number 53, Ventura, Calif., →OCLC, page 1, column 5

   The prison cavalcade drew to a halt at Randolph, about half way to the state farm here. Pomeroy was taken out of the car. He seemed unconcerned as a guard led hmi^([sic]) to a confectionery store nearby. “What’ll you have to drink, grandpa?” the guard asked. “Grandpa,” Pomeroy’s nom de plume when writing poetry for the Charleston prison magazine, pushed his grap cap back on his head and glanced uncomprehendedly at the guard.

   1929 August 2, “‘Where Did the Horses Go?’ Asks Man Taken from Cells for First Time in 53 Years”, in Appeal-Democrat, volume 136 (Appeal)/XLIV (Democrat), number 27, Marysville, Calif., →OCLC, page 5, column 1

   In an adjoining room Mooney’s 84-year-old mother, in the care of her daughter, Anna, waited uncomprehendedly the reading of the decision that once again blasted her son’s hopes for exoneration and freedom.

   1932 April 22, “Governor Rolph Denies Plea for Mooney Freedom”, in The Gettysburg Times, Gettysburg, Pa., →OCLC, page 1, column 4

   Synonyms: uncomprehendingly

2. rareIn a manner that is not comprehended.

   Practically the whole race is in a frenzied excitement over what prophecy long since announced and what history uncomprehendedly recorded.

   1936 May 25, R. G. Williams, “A New Order”, in Charles B. Welch, editor, The Tacoma News Tribune, 53rd year, number 208, Tacoma, Wash., →OCLC, “News Tribune’s Letter Box […]” section, page 10, column 4

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   Laforgue zealously reads his Scriptures, talks fervently but uncomprehendedly, and becomes prey to yearnings of the flesh as he watches Daniel and Annuka falling in love and coupling with the reluctant consent of Chomina.

   1991, John Simon, “Despair Not: Black Robe; Let Him Have It”, in John Simon on Film: Criticism, 1982–2001, New York, N.Y.: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, published 2005, →ISBN, “Criticism from the 1990s” section, page 310

   Thus even the institutional medium of Corporations(cf. Elements of the Philosophy of Right, pr.252, 253, 244) in the ethical life of the society in this regard can be said to be designed to ensure that complex far-flung economic factors would not uncomprehendedly sway over people’s activities and lives in order not to limit their freedom and activity in their vocational field of interest […]

   2013 October, Ayşen Furtun, “Amidst the Aspiration versus Exposition of ‘Rational-Actual’ Dichotomy versus Unity in Hegelian Terminology”, in International Journal of Business and Social Science, volume 4, number 13, Radford, Va.: Center for Promoting Ideas, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 286