Definition for Understanding:

• The faculty of the mind by which it apprehends the real state of things presented to it or the representation made to it; the act of comprehending or apprehending; power to understand; discernment; knowledge; exact comprehension; intelligence between two or more persons; agreement of minds.

Synonyms for Understanding:

• adj.

  •accepting, tolerant (adjective)
  • compassionate,
  • discerning,
  • empathetic,
  • responsive,
  • sympathetic.
  •agreeable (adjective)
  • acquiescent,
  • agreeable,
  • amiable,
  • compatible,
  • concordant,
  • congenial,
  • consensual,
  • empathetic,
  • friendly,
  • harmonious,
  • likeable,
  • pleasant,
  • willing,
  • Capitulating,
  • co-operative,
  • assenting.
  •intellectual (adjective)
  • brainy,
  • cerebral,
  • egghead,
  • intellectual,
  • intelligent,
  • psychological,
  • rational,
  • reasoning,
  • thinking.
  •responsive (adjective)
  • compassionate,
  • responsive,
  • sympathetic.

• n.

  •
  • awareness,
  • grasp,
  • sensitivity.
  •
  • wit.
  •
  • empathic.
  •agreement (noun)
  • acceptance,
  • accession,
  • accord,
  • accordance,
  • acquiescence,
  • agreement,
  • arrangement,
  • assent,
  • bond,
  • capitulation,
  • compact,
  • concord,
  • concordance,
  • concurrence,
  • consensus,
  • consent,
  • contract,
  • covenant,
  • deal,
  • empathy,
  • pact,
  • pledge,
  • promise,
  • settlement,
  • stipulation,
  • treaty,
  • unanimity.
  •belief (noun)
  • conception,
  • sympathy.
  •comprehension, appreciation (noun)
  • apprehension,
  • awareness,
  • discernment,
  • grasp,
  • insight,
  • intellect,
  • intelligence,
  • ken,
  • knowing,
  • knowledge,
  • perception,
  • reason,
  • sense,
  • wit.
  •concurrence (noun)
  • agreement.
  •contract (noun)
  • Mise.
  •empathetic (noun)
  • empathic.
  •feeling (noun)
  • empathy.
  •informal agreement (noun)
  • accord,
  • concord,
  • deal,
  • pact.
  •intellect (noun)
  • brain,
  • capacity,
  • cerebration,
  • comprehension,
  • intellect,
  • intelligence,
  • mentality,
  • mind,
  • rationality,
  • reason,
  • reasoning,
  • thinking,
  • thought,
  • brain-power.
  •intelligence (noun)
  • mind.
  •knowledge (noun)
  • cognizance,
  • education,
  • erudition,
  • information,
  • ken,
  • know-how,
  • knowledge,
  • wisdom.
  •obligation (noun)
  • obligation.
  •promise (noun)
  • assurance,
  • engagement,
  • guarantee,
  • oath,
  • obligation,
  • vow,
  • mutual agreement.
  •sense (noun)
  • rationality,
  • sense.
  •thought (noun)
  • thinking,
  • thought.
  •understanding (noun)
  • agreement,
  • apprehension,
  • discernment,
  • intellect,
  • reason,
  • sympathy.

• v.

  •believing (verb)
  • accepting,
  • assenting,
  • assuming,
  • believing,
  • concluding,
  • gathering,
  • holding,
  • judging,
  • professing,
  • trusting,
  • Affirming,
  • Declaring,
  • Deeming,
  • Maintaining,
  • Crediting,
  • Presuming,
  • Supposing,
  • Surmising,
  • giving faith,
  • putting faith in,
  • taking for granted.
  •knowing (verb)
  • discerning,
  • knowing,
  • Perceiving,
  • Recognizing.
  •learning (verb)
  • absorbing,
  • assimilating,
  • grasping,
  • learning,
  • mastering,
  • reading,
  • studying,
  • Digesting,
  • Discovering,
  • Gleaning,
  • Realizing,
  • Comprehending.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • awareness,
  • conception,
  • empathic,
  • perception.
  •
  • sensitivity.
  •
  • wit.
  •Other relevant words:
  • apprehension,
  • apprehensive,
  • awareness,
  • bright,
  • comprehensive,
  • conception,
  • convention,
  • correspondence,
  • discernment,
  • empathic,
  • entente,
  • grasp,
  • gray matter,
  • head,
  • insight,
  • judgement,
  • mutual understanding,
  • nous,
  • penetrating,
  • perception,
  • piercing,
  • psyche,
  • reasonable,
  • sense,
  • sensible,
  • sensitivity,
  • sympathy,
  • tolerant,
  • wit,
  • Apprehending,
  • Mise,
  • Brains.

Antonyms for Understanding:

• adj.

  • accepting, tolerant
    disagreeable, impatient, inconsiderate, intolerant, mean, merciless, selfish, unfeeling, unsympathetic, unaccepting.
  • Other antonyms:
    abusive, acrimonious, aloof, bigoted, body, brawn, brutal, callous, cold-blooded, coldhearted, cool, disagreeable, grim, hard, hard-bitten, hard-boiled, harsh, hateful, heartless, hostile, ill-natured, ill-tempered, inconsiderate, indifferent, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, insensitive, malevolent, malicious, matter, mean, merciless, narrow-minded, obdurate, oppressive, pitiless, rancorous, rough, ruthless, severe, small-minded, spiteful, stern, surly, thoughtless, tough, unaffectionate, uncaring, unfeeling, unfriendly, ungentle, uninterested, unkind, unloving, unperceiving, unperceptive, unrelenting, unsympathetic, unthinking, virulent, Hard-hearted.

• n.

  • belief
    insignificance.
  • comprehension, appreciation
    disagreement, disbelief, ignorance, misinterpretation, mistake, misunderstanding, stupidity.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    abusive, acrimonious, aloof, aloofness, bigoted, brutal, callous, cold-blooded, coldhearted, coldness, confusion, cool, disagreeable, disagreement, disbelief, dispute, hard, hard-bitten, hard-boiled, harsh, hateful, heartless, hostile, ignorance, ill-natured, ill-tempered, impatient, incomprehension, inconsiderate, indifference, indifferent, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, insensitive, insensitivity, insignificance, intolerant, malevolent, malicious, mean, merciless, misapprehension, misinterpretation, mistake, misunderstanding, narrow-minded, obdurate, obtuse, obtuseness, oppressive, rancorous, rigid, rough, ruthless, selfish, severe, small-minded, spiteful, stern, strict, stupidity, surly, thoughtless, tough, unaffectionate, uncaring, unfeeling, unfriendly, ungentle, uninterested, unkind, unloving, unrelenting, unsympathetic, unthinking, Hard-hearted, Misperception, unaccepting, blinkered, miscomprehension, noncomprehension, derstanding.