understanding

Definitions

1. 1present participle

   of Understand

2. 2adjective

   Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.

3. 3noun

   The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.

4. 4noun

   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. 5noun

   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.

6. 6noun

   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.

7. 7noun

   the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination

   "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil"

   Synonyms

   intellectreason
8. 8noun

   the cognitive condition of someone who understands

   "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"

   Synonyms

   apprehensiondiscernmentsavvy
9. 9noun

   an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion

   "his sympathies were always with the underdog"

   "I knew I could count on his understanding"

   Synonyms

   sympathy
10. 10noun

    the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises

    "they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business"

    "there was an understanding between management and the workers"

    Synonyms

    agreement
11. 11adjective

    characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy

    "an understanding friend"