Word Finder - understanding

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To grasp a concept fully and thoroughly, especially (of words, statements, art, etc.) to be aware of the meaning of and (of people) to be aware of the intent of.

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I'm sorry. I don't understand.

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To believe, to think one grasps sufficiently despite potentially incomplete knowledge.

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I understand that you have a package for me?

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(obsolete outside circus, acrobatics) To stand underneath, to support.

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(gerund) The act of one that understands or comprehends; comprehension; knowledge; discernment.

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Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.

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Opinion, judgement or outlook.

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According to my understanding, the situation is quite perilous. I wonder if you see it this way, too.

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An agreement of minds; harmony; something mutually understood or agreed upon.

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Sympathy.

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He showed much understanding for my problems when he heard about my past.

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Showing compassion.

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Knowing; skilful.

He is well educated, understanding and intelligent.

She has great understanding of us.

He smiled at her, understanding her joke.

His tone was kind, even understanding, yet it tore a sob from deep in her lungs.

I cannot tell exactly when I began Lamb's "Tales from Shakespeare"; but I know that I read them at first with a child's understanding and a child's wonder.

With not trusting her but wanting to without understanding why.

If your father is American and your mother Chinese, you will have a different understanding of differences between those countries, and, on balance, will be less amenable to war between those nations.

Can any one doubt after reading these questions that the child who was capable of asking them was also capable of understanding at least their elementary answers?

Puzzled, she studied her finger, not understanding what was cutting it.

Fine, they were very understanding, said to take all the time I need.

You need to have a basic understanding of how things work in biology.

It was an understanding as old as the Dark One, who had stopped his demons once before when they launched attacks on humans.

Five years have passed since then, and already I, with my petty understanding, begin to see clearly why she had to die, and in what way that death was but an expression of the infinite goodness of the Creator, whose every action, though generally incomprehensible to us, is but a manifestation of His infinite love for His creatures.

Sofia exchanged an understanding look with Traci.

She nodded, understanding it was his way of showing he trusted her, even if she was too furious to trust him.

Princess Mary looked at her companion without understanding what she was talking about.

Everybody looked at him, understanding what he meant.

He exchanged a look with her, and understanding crossed her face.

Any hope she'd had of them not understanding how different she was died.

Deidre gasped, understanding now how Darkyn planned on ensuring his mate didn't go anywhere, even after she won their deal.

Otherwise, there was no indication of understanding.

Gabe watched him disappear through a portal, not understanding.

She heard a sound from their room again and stood, understanding.

Deidre followed her gaze, not understanding.

His family has been very understanding.

Maybe he was closer to understanding her point.

Jessi gazed up at him, overwhelmed by the compelling aura around him, without understanding it.

In the church meeting, says Paul, "I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue."

After some small successes over the Goths, won by his generals (367-9), Valens concluded a peace with them, which lasted six years, on a general understanding that the Danube was to be the boundary between Goths and Romans.

On the other hand, even if it be admitted to be possible and conceivable that a present should be given by a suitor simply as seeking favourable consideration of his cause, and not as desirous of obtaining an unjust decree, and should be accepted by the judge on the same understanding, this would not entitle one absolutely to accept Bacon's statement.

Rostopchin, though he had patriotic sentiments, was a sanguine and impulsive man who had always moved in the highest administrative circles and had no understanding at all of the people he supposed himself to be guiding.

But Natasha looked at her as if not understanding what was said to her and again fixed her eyes on the corner of the stove.

He looked at them without understanding who they were, why they were there, or what they wanted of him.

Having sat awhile with her visitors without understanding anything of what they were saying, she softly left the room and went to the nursery.

Natasha and Pierre, left alone, also began to talk as only a husband and wife can talk, that is, with extraordinary clearness and rapidity, understanding and expressing each other's thoughts in ways contrary to all rules of logic, without premises, deductions, or conclusions, and in a quite peculiar way.

His expression and tone were anything but understanding.

What part of 'wealthy' were you having problems understanding?

Lisa had no trouble understanding why she seldom had company.

She looked up, her eyes pleading for understanding.

It was after nine before the two had time to talk, and come to some sort of peaceful understanding.

You just have to be understanding.

All he wanted was to be alone so he could call his wife back and beg for her understanding.

When you die and go to heaven, you have universal knowledge and understanding.

Elise nodded in understanding.

And, hey, thanks for being so understanding.

It wasn't a flash of understanding, but a spark.

He was attentive and understanding.

He felt the mood that descended over her without fully understanding it.

She took one step then another, not understanding how her body could move when her mind couldn't.

What dismay she felt at Jonny's first killing a week ago had slid into understanding that the Black God was merely becoming what he was.