comprehension

1. 1.

   an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result)

   “how you can do that is beyond my comprehension”

   “he was famous for his comprehension of American literature”

   Antonymsincomprehension

   Broaderunderstanding
2. 2.

   the relation of comprising something

   “he admired the inclusion of so many ideas in such a short work”

   Synonymsinclusion

   Broaderinvolvement

Other forms of comprehension

plural

comprehensions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about comprehension

What does comprehension mean?

comprehension means "an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in comprehension?

comprehension has 4 syllables: com-pre-hen-sion. The stress falls on "hen". In IPA it is /ˌkɑmpɹiˈhɛnʃən/.

What is another word for comprehension?

Close synonyms include inclusion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of comprehension?

The recorded antonyms are incomprehension.

Is comprehension a common word?

comprehension is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with comprehension?

2 words rhyme with comprehension. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.