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understanding
[ uhn-der-stan-ding ]
noun
- mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation:
My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
- intellectual faculties; intelligence; mind:
a quick understanding.
- superior power of discernment; enlightened intelligence:
With her keen understanding she should have become a leader.
- knowledge of or familiarity with a particular thing; skill in dealing with or handling something:
an understanding of accounting practice.
- a state of cooperative or mutually tolerant relations between people:
To him, understanding and goodwill were the supreme virtues.
- a mutual agreement, especially of a private, unannounced, or tacit kind:
They had an understanding about who would do the dishes.
- an agreement regulating joint activity or settling differences, often informal or preliminary in character:
After hours of negotiation, no understanding on a new contract was reached.
- Philosophy.
- the power of abstract thought; logical power.
- Kantianism. the mental faculty resolving the sensory manifold into the transcendental unity of apperception.
adjective
- characterized by understanding; prompted by, based on, or demonstrating comprehension, intelligence, discernment, empathy, or the like:
an understanding attitude.
understanding
/ ˌʌndəˈstændɪŋ /
noun
- the ability to learn, judge, make decisions, etc; intelligence or sense
- personal opinion or interpretation of a subject
my understanding of your predicament
- a mutual agreement or compact, esp an informal or private one
- an unofficial engagement to be married
- archaic.philosophy the mind, esp the faculty of reason
- on the understanding thatwith the condition that; providing
adjective
- sympathetic, tolerant, or wise towards people
- possessing judgment and intelligence
Derived Forms
- ˌunderˈstandingly, adverb
Other Words From
- under·standing·ly adverb
- nonun·der·standing adjective noun
- nonun·der·standing·ly adverb
- self-under·standing noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of understanding1
Example Sentences
People get an approximate social understanding and that seems to work pretty well.
Jalisa Washington-Price, vice president, political and advocacy, iHeartMediaJane Mayer’s book gave me a deep understanding about the problem I wanted to fix.
Then, follow-up with why you grouped the ones that set off the same search results and are part of the same topic, for more understanding.
Although he wasn’t working for the co-op at that time, Miltenberger said, it is his understanding that the hospital wanted to help keep competition in that marketplace.
The goal is to develop a deeper understanding of how different approaches work or fall short.
Nothing made Groucho funnier than having this Margaret Dumont around not understanding the jokes.
Understanding my own dreams had a lot to do with getting me off the juice.
As she discussed her understanding of the voting rights campaign and how she planned to recreate it, I grew more relieved.
My understanding was that according to most Christian beliefs, being trans or gay was a sin, cut and dry.
Now half-awake, we need all the help we can get in understanding our situation.
I would ask you to imagine it translated into every language, a common material of understanding throughout all the world.
Our social life is aimless without it, we are a crowd without a common understanding.
The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools.
The friars were exceedingly wroth, and combined to defeat the Generalʼs efforts to come to an understanding with the rebels.
The two enjoyed a mutual understanding from which he was excluded, a private intimacy that was spiritual, mental,— physical.
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