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Comprehender vs Comprehended - What's the difference?

comprehender | comprehended |

As a noun comprehender

is Agent noun of comprehend: one who comprehends.

As a verb comprehended is

past tense of comprehend.

As an adjective comprehended is

understood.

comprehender

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • one who comprehends.
  • English agent nouns
  • * 2005 , Margaret J. Snowling, Charles Hulme, The Science of Reading: A Handbook , p. 232:
  • Less-skilled comprehenders do not know when it is appropriate to draw inferences.
  • * 1989 , Hans-Wilhelm Dechert, Manfred Raupach, Interlingual Processes , p. 138:
  • This mental representation provides the comprehender with a general plan according to which he can organize, interrelate and memorize the incoming information.
  • * 1908 , Paul Deussen, The Philosophy of the Upanishads , p. 169:
  • There is no seer beside him, no hearer beside him, no comprehender beside him, no knower beside him.
    ----

    comprehended

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (comprehend)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Understood.
  • Included; comprised; contained.
  • Derived terms

    * uncomprehended