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Comprehend vs Imponderable - What's the difference?

comprehend | imponderable |

As a verb comprehend

is .

As an adjective imponderable is

imponderable.

As a noun imponderable is

imponderable, intangible.

comprehend

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.1:
    • And lothly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee, / That nought but gall and venim comprehended […].
  • * 1776 , (Edward Gibbon), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Penguin 2009, p. 9:
    • In the second century of the Christian Æra, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.
  • To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly.

    • Related terms

    * comprehensibility * comprehensible * comprehension * comprehensive * comprehensiveness * comprise ----

    imponderable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (physics) An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism.

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