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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
uncomprehending
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She gave me a helpless uncomprehending look.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Artists who worked in advanced manners continued a tradition which the uncomprehending, wider, public would have called vanguard.
▪ At all times he was uncomprehending and desperate for advice.
▪ But now, uncomprehending, she laughed and ran up the wide stairs.
▪ Emmie looked at her, uncomprehending.
▪ It stung, that eruption of uncomprehending idiocy.
▪ Miss Harker stared at them uncomprehending for a second.
▪ The result is that, when relationships break down, women's disappointment is often accompanied by extraordinary, uncomprehending bitterness.
▪ There were no cultural bureaucrats in State-subsidised theatres imposing the Brechtian avant-garde on uncomprehending audiences.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
uncomprehending

1795, from un- (1) "not" + present participle of comprehend (v.). Related: Uncomprehendingly.

Wiktionary
uncomprehending

a. Lacking comprehension or understanding.

WordNet
uncomprehending

adj. lacking understanding; "tried to explain to her uncomprehending husband"

Usage examples of "uncomprehending".

As a half-slumbering man may note a sudden brilliant glare of sunshine flashing on the wall of his sleeping-chamber, so Theos at first viewed this floating pageant in confused, uncomprehending bewilderment, .

Out of eyes overflowing with anguished innocence, fear and terror and uncomprehending madness spilled forth in profusion unbounded.

The windstorm that raked across the broad lands dissipates in wilderness where there are only dumb, uncomprehending beasts to sniff at its last gasping residue.

Buildings, forests, jungles were seared to ash by the holocaust, and in the midst of the inferno, she saw the uncomprehending dark eyes of a little child.

Her uncomprehending gaze fell on the charred remains of Harry Pringle.

The face of John Harder stared about the room with swollen, uncomprehending eyes.

Jean and the other civilians all were in shock, uncomprehending, automatons shoved this way and that by the soldiers.

Sharifi had seen only a pale echo of this, filtered through the uncomprehending field AI.

Surely, he thought, the Preservers had not created the world so that it would repeat the same stories in a series of futile cycles, like a book read again and again by an uncomprehending idiot.

He wondered if this was how Angel had felt, estranged from all she knew by millions of years of history, with only cornpliant uncomprehending aliens for company.

She dug out a concentrate pack and swallowed one tablet before the uncomprehending Tup-Ma.

He seemed to know immediately that our uncomprehending fingers had rummaged through his soul.

I repeated, but they still appeared horribly undistressed, perhaps uncomprehending of my outburst.

Nom Anor frowned at this, uncomprehending, until a thick twist of black, greasy-looking smoke drifted through the image.

Diana and Dinh were staring at him in uncomprehending alarm, and Mavranos crossed to the hallway door and pulled it open.