Understanding Synonyms & Definitions

Synonyms are words that have the same or almost the same meaning and the definition is the detailed explanation of the word. This page will help you out finding the Definition & Synonyms of hundreds of words mentioned on this page. Check out the page and learn more about the English vocabulary.

• UnderstandingDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Understand
2. (n.) The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
3. (n.) The power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends.
4. (n.) An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.
5. (n.) Specifically, the discursive faculty; the faculty of knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. In this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the reason.
6. (a.) Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.

• UnderstandDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. i.) To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being.
2. (v. t.) To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink.
3. (v. t.) To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill.
4. (v. i.) To be informed; to have or receive knowledge.
5. (v. t.) To stand under; to support.
6. (v. t.) To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume.
7. (v. t.) To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain.

• UnderstandinglyDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (adv.) In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly.