understanding
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
understanding/ʌndəˈstandɪŋ/
▶noun
- 1 the ability to understand something; comprehension.
■ the power of abstract thought; intellect.
■ an individual's perception or judgement of a situation.
- 2 sympathetic awareness or tolerance.
- 3 an informal or unspoken agreement or arrangement.
- 1 sympathetically aware of other people's feelings; tolerant and forgiving.
- 2 archaic having insight or good judgement.
– derivatives
understandingly adverb.
understandingly adverb.
'understanding' also found in these Oxford entries:
apprehension
- apprehensive
- barrier
- blind
- blind spot
- blinker
- clueless
- comprehension
- comprehensive
- culture
- decipher
- discrimination
- double entendre
- enlighten
- entente
- eurhythmics
- feel
- feeling
- figure
- fiqh
- flounder
- frontier
- generation gap
- gentleman's agreement
- gormless
- grasp
- grip
- handle
- hindsight
- illumination
- indelicate
- informed
- insight
- intellect
- intellection
- interactionism
- internationalism
- interpret
- intransigent
- key
- lend
- light
- mystery
- mystic
- mystical
- nod
- notion
- paranormal
- parrot-fashion
- penetration
