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
To him nature—the uncomprehended, fearful, mysterious nature—must seem the domain of freedom, of volition, of higher power, indeed as an ultra-human degree of destiny, as god.
From Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
Men called and shouted each to each With strange, uncomprehended speech, And what it meant no one could tell; So they left building in despair.
From Songs Ysame by Bacon, Albion Fellows
Marriage was to her an uncomprehended world, an impasse: a man disappeared into it as into a monastery.
From The Salamander by Johnson, Owen
He caught her only just in time, for she stiffened into ice, daft with the uncomprehended terror of it all, and helpless as a child.
From The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories by Blackwood, Algernon
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