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understandingadjective having or showing the capacity for sharing the feelings of anothera kind and understanding teacher who often helps troubled students commiserative, compassionate, empathetic, empathic, humane, sympathetic feeling, perceptive, sensitiveconsiderate, gentle, softhearted, tender, tenderhearted, warm, warmheartedbenevolent, benignant, bighearted, charitable, kind, kindhearted, kindly, largehearted, magnanimousclement, lenient, merciful, tolerantpitying, ruthfulcongenial, cordial, friendly, genial, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, well-disposedaffectionate, loving callous, cold-blooded, coldhearted, hard, hard-hearted, heartless, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, obdurate, unfeeling, unsympathetic inconsiderate, insensitive, thoughtless, unthinkingaloof, cool, indifferent, uncaring, uninterestedunaffectionate, unfriendly, unlovingmerciless, pitiless, ruthlessbigoted, blinkered, narrow-minded, small-mindedbrutal, grim, hard-bitten, hard-boiled, harsh, oppressive, rough, severe, stern, tough, ungentle, unrelentingabusive, acrimonious, disagreeable, hateful, hostile, ill-natured, ill-tempered, malevolent, malicious, mean, rancorous, spiteful, surly, unkind, virulent understandingnounan arrangement about action to be takenthe tenants came to an understanding with the landlord that they would be able to renew their leases for the same rent accord, agreement, bargain, compact, contract, convention, covenant, deal, disposition, pact, settlement charter, treatybinder, pledge, promisealliance, association, entente, entente cordiale, league, partnershipacceptance, approval, assent, concurrence, consent, OK(or okay) the knowledge gained from the process of coming to know or understand somethinga social observer with a deep understanding of the problems that the nation's cities face in the 21st century appreciation, apprehension, comprehension, grasp, grip, hold, perception, percipience absorption, assimilation, digestion, uptakeconception, visualizationawareness, consciousness, enlightenment, realization incomprehension, noncomprehension misapprehension, miscomprehension, misinterpretation, misperception, misunderstanding understandingverbpresent participle of understandto form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and informationas I understand it, this is the best plan that we have concluding, deciding, deducing, deriving, extrapolating, gathering, inferring, judging, making out, reasoning assuming, supposingconjecturing, guessing, speculating, surmisingconstruing, interpreting, readingcontemplating, philosophizing, rationalizing, thinkingascertaining, doping (out), finding out drawing a conclusion to have a practical understanding ofI think I understand how an engine works now comprehending, grasping, knowing appreciating, apprehending, cognizing, fathoming, following, kenning(chiefly Scottish), perceiving, savvyinghaving, possessingcatching on (to), picking up misapprehending, misconceiving, misinterpreting, misknowing, misperceiving, misunderstanding to have a clear idea ofafter a few weeks in Russia I began to understand the language a little bit appreciating, apprehending, assimilating, beholding, catching, catching on (to), cognizing, compassing, comprehending, conceiving, cottoning (to or on to), deciphering, decoding, digging, discerning, getting, grasping, grokking, intuiting, knowing, making, making out, perceiving, recognizing, registering, savvying, seeing, seizing, sensing, tumbling (to), twigging absorbing, digesting, taking inrealizingfathoming, penetrating, piercing picking up on missing misapprehending, misconceiving, misconstruing, misinterpreting, misperceiving, misreading, mistaking, misunderstanding before the 12th century |