understanding

understanding is a 13-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Understand. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

13 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 21 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. present participle. of Understand
2. adjective. Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
3. noun. The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
4. noun. 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. noun. 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. noun. 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. noun. 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: intellect, reason

8. noun. the cognitive condition of someone who understands

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

   Synonyms: apprehension, discernment, savvy

9. noun. 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. noun. 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. adjective. characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy

    "an understanding friend"

Synonyms

intellect, reason, apprehension, discernment, savvy, sympathy, agreement

Common word forms

understand, understandings, understandingly

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