uncomprehending
Britishadjective
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not able to understand; puzzled
a long, uncomprehending look
Example Sentences
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His Gogo gives a blank, uncomprehending thousand-yard stare into the void that has an unsettling power.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 29, 2025
All he could do was gaze back at them, uncomprehending.
From Salon • May 6, 2023
Gray explores his own budding awareness of injustice in “Armageddon Time,” which like “Jojo Rabbit” and “Belfast” navigates daunting moral calculations through the eyes of an intuitive but also uncomprehending child.
From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2022
Like the dozens of her other proposals, amounting to hundreds of pages, this one went either unread or unremarked upon by her mostly uncomprehending superior officers.
From Slate • May 25, 2021
Hagrid simply looked at him, the little of his face that could be seen completely blank, uncomprehending.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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