uncomprehended
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Last week, as the battle for Burma ran its course, it was still a remote, uncomprehended struggle to most of the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
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So might a deaf painter sympathise far off with a musician, as the slave and master of some uncomprehended and yet kindred art.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
But Margot’s outburst had worked off some of her own uncomprehended terror, and she grew calm again.
From A Daughter of the Forest by Evelyn Raymond
For she was in fear—of many things known, and things uncomprehended: fear of where she had passed; fear of where she was going; of him!
From The Salamander by Owen Johnson
This attitude of the husband, unexpressed, perhaps uncomprehended, was none the less effective in forming the womanly ideal of the home.
From Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) by John Rouse Larus
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