What is another word for understanding?
1213 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ˌʌndəstˈandɪŋ], [ ˌʌndəstˈandɪŋ], [ ˌʌ_n_d_ə_s_t_ˈa_n_d_ɪ_ŋ]
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Similar words for understanding:
- accepting, tolerant (adjective)
- agreeable (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- amicable (adjective)
- appreciative (adjective)
- brotherly (adjective)
- charitable (adjective)
- compassionate (adjective)
- conscious (adjective)
- cultured (adjective)
- expressive (adjective)
- favorable (adjective)
- friendly (adjective)
- humane (adjective)
- indulgent (adjective)
- insightful (adjective)
- intellectual (adjective)
- intelligent (adjective)
- kind (adjective)
- knowledgeable (adjective)
- liberal (adjective)
- observant (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- patient (adjective)
- pitying (adjective)
- sage (adjective)
- sensitive (adjective)
- sympathetic (adjective)
- tactful (adjective)
- tolerant (adjective)
- wise (adjective)
- ability (noun)
- acquaintance (noun)
- acumen (noun)
- agreement (noun)
- appreciation (noun)
- apprehension (noun)
- awareness (noun)
- bargain (noun)
- belief (noun)
- brainpower (noun)
- comprehension, appreciation (noun)
- compromise (noun)
- consent (noun)
- contract (noun)
- convention (noun)
- cordiality (noun)
- deal (noun)
- decipherment (noun)
- decision (noun)
- discrimination (noun)
- experience (noun)
- friendship (noun)
- genius (noun)
- gentleman's agreement (noun)
- gentlemen's agreement (noun)
- harmony (noun)
- heart (noun)
- horse sense (noun)
- idea (noun)
- import (noun)
- indulgence (noun)
- informal agreement (noun)
- insight (noun)
- intellect (noun)
- intelligence (noun)
- intent/intention (noun)
- intimacy (noun)
- ken (noun)
- kindness (noun)
- knowledge (noun)
- lenience (noun)
- lenity (noun)
- mastery (noun)
- meaning (noun)
- mentality (noun)
- notice (noun)
- obligation (noun)
- open-mindedness (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- perceptiveness (noun)
- pity (noun)
- promise (noun)
- rationality (noun)
- reading (noun)
- reason (noun)
- recognition (noun)
- rumination (noun)
- sagacity (noun)
- sanity (noun)
- savvy (noun)
- sense (noun)
- sympathy (noun)
- tact (noun)
- taste (noun)
- terms (noun)
- theory (noun)
- thought (noun)
- tolerance (noun)
- vision (noun)
- wisdom (noun)
- believing (verb)
- knowing (verb)
- learning (verb)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other relevant words (v.n.)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Understanding:
adj.
• accepting, tolerant (adjective) • agreeable (adjective)- congenial,
- likeable,
- harmonious,
- friendly,
- compatible,
- amiable,
- pleasant,
- assenting,
- Capitulating,
- agreeable,
- willing,
- acquiescent,
- consensual.
- clubbier,
- more understanding,
- pacific,
- re gular,
- peaceable,
- re-gular,
- like minded,
- clubbiest,
- goodhumored,
- most concordant,
- peaceful,
- more concordant,
- good humored,
- likeminded.
- more apprised,
- more witting,
- more recognizing,
- more informed,
- re marking,
- more apperceptive,
- supra liminal,
- more felt,
- most percipient,
- most witting,
- in formed,
- on to,
- most felt,
- more remarking,
- more supraliminal,
- most supraliminal,
- able recognize,
- more percipient,
- most remarking,
- in-formed,
- re-marking,
- re-cognizing,
- most apperceptive,
- re cognizing,
- most apprised,
- more aesthetic,
- most recognizing,
- supra-liminal.
- high class,
- up to date,
- most savant,
- well-informed,
- most blue stocking,
- wellinformed,
- most bluestocking,
- more bluestocking,
- more savant,
- more blue stocking,
- highclass,
- more distingue,
- well informed,
- more blue-stocking,
- most distingue,
- urbane,
- traveled,
- savant,
- most blue-stocking,
- re fined.
- expressive,
- forcible,
- re-presentative,
- most revelatory,
- silvertongued,
- more revelatory,
- suggestive,
- re presentative,
- silver tongued.
- more well intentioned,
- most assenting,
- more wellintentioned,
- re-commendatory,
- pre-disposed,
- welldisposed,
- well disposed,
- more welldisposed,
- most well disposed,
- re-assuring,
- more approbative,
- wellintentioned,
- most praiseful,
- most well intentioned,
- more well disposed,
- well intentioned,
- most welldisposed,
- most wellintentioned,
- most commending,
- more well-intentioned,
- more praiseful,
- most reassuring,
- most recommendatory,
- more reassuring,
- re assuring,
- pre disposed,
- more assenting,
- most well-intentioned,
- re commendatory,
- more commending,
- more recommendatory,
- most well-disposed,
- more well-disposed,
- most approbative.
- more soft-shelled,
- most soft-shelled,
- most soft shelled,
- most overpermissive,
- more soft shelled,
- more overpermissive,
- most softshelled,
- softshelled,
- soft shelled,
- able live with,
- over permissive,
- fonder,
- more softshelled.
- ear the ground,
- knows whats what,
- ear to ground,
- most penetrative,
- ear ground,
- knows what what,
- more penetrative.
- more bleeding-heart,
- most bleeding heart,
- more good-hearted,
- more good hearted,
- more bleeding heart,
- heart right place,
- most bleeding-heart,
- most good-hearted,
- most good hearted,
- good hearted,
- most bleedingheart,
- bleedingheart,
- more bleedingheart.
- more tuned in,
- more tuned-in,
- in know,
- tunedin,
- most tuned-in,
- most posted,
- more tunedin,
- more withit,
- most knowledgeable,
- most sophic,
- more with-it,
- most tunedin,
- plugged in,
- more sophic,
- more posted,
- more with it,
- most withit,
- most with-it,
- most tuned in,
- well rounded,
- more abreast,
- most abreast,
- well-rounded,
- wellrounded,
- most with it,
- withit.
- highminded,
- most reformist,
- most libertarian,
- latitudinarian,
- most latitudinarian,
- un-prejudiced,
- reformist,
- un biased,
- un conventional,
- more humanistic,
- more libertarian,
- un prejudiced,
- avant garde,
- most unbigoted,
- most humanistic,
- avantgarde,
- more reformist,
- more latitudinarian,
- un-bigoted,
- un bigoted,
- un-conventional,
- more unbigoted,
- high minded.
- on ones toes,
- eagle eyed,
- dis covering,
- more detecting,
- most sharp eyed,
- most clear sighted,
- more clearsighted,
- most deducing,
- most clearsighted,
- more sharpeyed,
- more observative,
- more sharp eyed,
- wide awake,
- dis criminating,
- on one toes,
- most detecting,
- more discovering,
- most surveying,
- most advertent,
- more contemplating,
- dis-covering,
- most clear-sighted,
- more advertent,
- dis-criminating,
- more clear sighted,
- clear sighted,
- most contemplating,
- most sharp-eyed,
- more questioning,
- more deducing,
- most sharpeyed,
- most observative,
- most intentive,
- more clear-sighted,
- most discovering,
- sharp eyed,
- more surveying,
- eagleeyed,
- not missing trick,
- more sharp-eyed,
- sharpeyed,
- more intentive,
- most questioning.
- able to recognize,
- conscious,
- being big,
- tactful,
- open to suggestions,
- heart in right place,
- good-hearted,
- in right mind,
- easy going,
- wise,
- alive to,
- having heart in right place,
- wise to,
- easy-going,
- on one's toes,
- sage,
- in favor of,
- advertent,
- appreciative,
- libertarian,
- patient,
- in the know,
- in on,
- humanistic,
- in the right mind,
- unbigoted,
- mild-tempered,
- over-permissive,
- acceptive,
- living with,
- bleeding-heart,
- liberalistic,
- on toes,
- well-disposed,
- tenderhearted,
- Observative,
- approbative,
- sentient,
- kind,
- philosophic,
- right nice,
- revelatory,
- soft shell,
- blue-stocking,
- Sophic,
- pitying,
- able to live with,
- easy on,
- clubby,
- comradely,
- bluestocking,
- wideawake,
- overpermissive,
- praiseful,
- tuned-in,
- broadminded,
- favorable,
- knows what's what,
- percipient,
- stoical,
- with-it,
- tuned in,
- penetrative,
- clearsighted,
- sharp-eyed,
- amicable,
- sensitive to,
- Recommendatory,
- distingue,
- hep to,
- Intentive,
- insightful,
- well-intentioned,
- compassionate,
- indulgent,
- clear-sighted,
- ear to the ground,
- open-minded,
- swayable,
- cultured,
- all heart,
- concordant,
- humane,
- supraliminal,
- not missing a trick,
- going easy on,
- square shooting,
- witting,
- knowledgeable,
- uncomplaining,
- easy with,
- tolerant,
- old softie,
- charitable,
- Soft-shelled,
- co-operative,
- intelligent.
- more easy going,
- most easy-going,
- more mildtempered,
- more mild tempered,
- un ruffled,
- mildtempered,
- un-ruffled,
- more easy-going,
- most uncomplaining,
- sub missive,
- long suffering,
- even tempered,
- most mildtempered,
- more uncomplaining,
- most easy going,
- selfpossessed,
- eventempered,
- more mild-tempered,
- re-signed,
- longsuffering,
- un-complaining,
- un tiring,
- most mild tempered,
- un complaining,
- most mild-tempered,
- mild tempered,
- re signed,
- un-tiring.
- sensory,
- sensatory,
- turned on to,
- supersensitive,
- emotionable,
- sensile,
- oversensitive,
- reactive,
- Susceptive,
- easily affected,
- touchy feely,
- hypersensitive.
n.
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- clarity,
- common sense,
- wit,
- brilliance,
- intuition.
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- agree,
- condolences.
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- forbearing,
- understand.
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- generous,
- kindly,
- significance,
- substance,
- thrust,
- denotation,
- usage,
- connotation.
- re-sourcefulness,
- under standing,
- under standings,
- under-standing,
- under-standings,
- re sourcefulnesses,
- re-sourcefulnesses,
- re sourcefulness.
- assent,
- capitulation,
- agreement,
- concurrence,
- accordance,
- compact,
- unanimity,
- accord,
- stipulation,
- concordance,
- pact,
- empathy,
- acquiescence,
- consensus,
- pledge,
- settlement,
- bond,
- covenant,
- accession,
- promise,
- acceptance,
- arrangement.
- aesthetic senses,
- high regards,
- re-spect,
- re spects,
- responsivenessses,
- re spect,
- re gards,
- re-gard,
- re-spects.
- conclusion,
- opinion,
- view,
- impression,
- viewpoint,
- signification,
- acceptation,
- hypothesis,
- inkling,
- thesis,
- Significancy,
- estimation.
- apperception,
- assimilation,
- sense,
- perceptiveness,
- penetration,
- knowledge,
- knowing,
- prehension,
- sharpness.
- tradeoff,
- trade off,
- fifty-fifty,
- middle courses,
- copout,
- tradeoffs,
- half and half,
- half measure,
- middle course,
- win-win situation,
- half measures.
- de codings,
- de-coding,
- de-codings,
- ex plication,
- ex-plication,
- de coding,
- ex-plications,
- decryptions.
- de-terminations,
- out-comes,
- out-come,
- out comes,
- de-termination,
- de terminations,
- re solutions,
- the calls,
- re-solutions,
- de termination,
- re-solution,
- adjudicatures,
- out come.
- pactums,
- gentleman agreement,
- gentlemans agreement,
- unspoken agreements,
- unwritten agreements,
- gentleman-agreement,
- verbal agreements,
- gentleman's-agreement,
- tacit agreements,
- gentlemans-agreement.
- gentlemen-agreement,
- gentlemens-agreement,
- gentlemens agreement,
- gentlemen agreement,
- nonformal agreements,
- gentlemen's-agreement.
- ex-cesses,
- in-temperances,
- in temperances,
- gratifyings,
- spoilings,
- ex-cess,
- fondlings,
- favorings,
- kowtowings,
- pleasings,
- babyings,
- Permissivenesses,
- intemperatenesses,
- in temperateness,
- in temperatenesses,
- placatings,
- immoderations,
- in temperance,
- pettings,
- coddlings,
- treatings,
- toadyings,
- in-temperateness,
- profligatenesses,
- in-temperatenesses,
- ex cess,
- pamperings,
- in-temperance.
- rationality,
- brain,
- comprehension,
- thinking,
- thought,
- cerebration,
- brain-power,
- capacity,
- reasoning,
- mind.
- co nations,
- in tents,
- co nation,
- co-nations,
- conations,
- de sire,
- de sires,
- de-sire,
- co-nation,
- in-tents,
- de-sires.
- serviceabilities,
- solicitousnesses,
- un selfishness,
- un selfishnesses,
- un-selfishness,
- graciousnesses,
- un-selfishnesses,
- good intentions.
- out-look,
- frame mind,
- out look,
- turn mind,
- way thinking,
- head-sets,
- head set,
- head sets,
- out-looks,
- out looks.
- idea,
- formality,
- discernment,
- reassurances,
- etiquette,
- prearrangement,
- close relations,
- sentience,
- messages,
- receptiveness,
- superability,
- reason,
- unselfishness,
- decision,
- intelligence,
- Sweetness,
- Percipience,
- Lucidness,
- intimacy,
- contract,
- aliveness,
- name of game,
- consent,
- broad-mindedness,
- tact,
- fondling,
- Treating,
- ideology,
- reading,
- head,
- meaning,
- discrimination,
- recurrence,
- close relation,
- purport,
- nonformal agreement,
- intellection,
- touch,
- gentlemen's agreement,
- thoughtfulness,
- sanity,
- graciousness,
- facility,
- adepts,
- notice,
- notion,
- Pansophy,
- tacit agreement,
- prowess,
- liberalism,
- covenance,
- headsets,
- smart,
- wisdom,
- turn of mind,
- Sageness,
- percept,
- cordiality,
- high regard,
- broadmindedness,
- decryption,
- mutualities,
- Depth Perception,
- precocity,
- size of it,
- perusal,
- goodwill,
- close relationship,
- profundity,
- good taste,
- warmth,
- codification,
- headset,
- reassurance,
- bodhi,
- extravagance,
- intendments,
- Formularization,
- terms,
- confidentiality,
- wizardry,
- wavelengths,
- unspoken agreement,
- gratefulness,
- codifications,
- resourcefulness,
- permissiveness,
- worldview,
- immoderation,
- feeling,
- what it is,
- concord,
- rapport,
- subtext,
- mutual attraction,
- mastership,
- good intention,
- toleration,
- recognizance,
- enjoyableness,
- insight,
- decodings,
- serviceability,
- message,
- openness,
- acuities,
- percepts,
- in sight,
- Profligateness,
- Sympathies,
- the call,
- sagaciousness,
- deal,
- heart,
- pity,
- astuteness,
- virtuosity,
- thankfulness,
- mentality,
- book-learning,
- pactum,
- conversance,
- sympathy,
- judgment,
- einsteins,
- aesthetic sense,
- mastery,
- indulgence,
- Re-mark,
- depth of perception,
- liberalness,
- head-set,
- generousness,
- prearrangements,
- perspicacity,
- marbles,
- cunnings,
- warmheartedness,
- sensitivities,
- harmony,
- supposals,
- sagacity,
- lenience,
- compromise,
- belief,
- insights,
- acumen,
- Conation,
- ability,
- convention,
- responsiveness,
- treaty,
- wizardries,
- ken,
- solicitousness,
- horizons,
- intemperateness,
- esteem,
- theory,
- receptivity,
- Adjudicature,
- acuity,
- wavelength,
- way of thinking,
- Palates,
- genius,
- kindness,
- Intendment,
- book learning,
- realization,
- verbal agreement,
- gentleman's agreement,
- Comities,
- import,
- perceptivity,
- rememberings,
- masterships,
- expertism,
- finding,
- in formation,
- unwritten agreement,
- telltales,
- forbearance,
- mutuality,
- open-mindedness,
- recognition,
- sentences,
- recognizances,
- intents,
- intellect,
- decipherment,
- nature of beast,
- taste,
- purview,
- perceptivities,
- lesson,
- supposal,
- responsivenesss,
- wholeheartedness,
- nuts and bolts,
- smartness,
- appreciation,
- confidentialities,
- concordat,
- comity,
- intellections,
- concordats,
- Percipiency,
- mildness,
- mutual fondness,
- vision,
- rhyme or reason.
- booklearnings,
- book-learnings,
- re views,
- book learnings,
- ex-aminations,
- para-phrase,
- para-phrases,
- re-view,
- ex amination,
- booklearning,
- ex aminations,
- para phrase,
- para phrases,
- re-views,
- re view.
- re calls,
- re-callings,
- re-calling,
- identifyings,
- re-call,
- recallings,
- noticings,
- re-cognition,
- re-cognizance,
- re cognition,
- re cognizance,
- re-cognizances,
- perceivings,
- re-calls,
- re collections,
- re calling,
- re cognizances,
- re cognitions,
- re-collection,
- re-cognitions,
- re-collections,
- re collection,
- re callings.
- mutual fondnesses,
- re-assurance,
- re assurance,
- warmheartednesses,
- mutual attractions,
- re assurances,
- re-assurances.
- pre mises,
- pro visions,
- pro vision,
- de-tails,
- pre-mise,
- pre-mises,
- pre mise,
- pro-visos,
- what i,
- pro-viso,
- size it,
- pro-vision,
- de tails,
- what it i,
- pro viso,
- what is,
- pro-visions.
v.
• believing (verb)- gathering,
- giving faith,
- Supposing,
- concluding,
- Deeming,
- taking for granted,
- Crediting,
- trusting,
- Declaring,
- judging,
- holding,
- Affirming,
- putting faith in,
- professing,
- Presuming,
- believing,
- assuming,
- accepting,
- Maintaining,
- Surmising.
v.n.
• Other relevant words: (v.n.)Other synonyms:
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- compatibility,
- expertise,
- magnanimous,
- lore,
- tolerance,
- compassion,
- grounding,
- observant,
- empathic,
- coherence,
- foreknowledge,
- experience,
- friendship,
- Familiarity,
- common ground,
- unity,
- sophistication,
- community of interest,
- awareness,
- Ubuntu,
- commiseration,
- truce,
- binder,
- trade-off,
- cognition,
- brainpower,
- conception,
- resignation,
- self-discovery,
- alliance,
- undertaking,
- hindsight,
- self-knowledge,
- lockstep,
- emotional intelligence,
- moratorium,
- condolence,
- forgiving,
- perception,
- point of reference,
- literacy,
- general knowledge.
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- affinity,
- interpretation,
- ripe,
- humanity,
- sensitivity,
- liberal,
- acquaintance,
- embrace,
- identification,
- merciful,
- sentiment,
- clement.
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- bargain.
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- picture.
- sympathy vote,
- nevermind,
- vibe,
- emotional quotient,
- achieve,
- think tank,
- soul mate,
- overview,
- sympathetic,
- thanks,
- mutually,
- charity,
- Codependency,
- thought-provoking,
- tech-savvy,
- on the same page,
- ruminative,
- brainstorming,
- very good,
- as you can see,
- rumination,
- i couldn't agree more,
- vibes,
- mind control,
- fellow feeling,
- aphorism,
- permeate.
How to use "Understanding" in context?
There is an amazing amount of misunderstanding that exists in our society, and it can be a real hindrance to communication and collaboration. Understanding is a key ingredient for successful collaboration, and it's the ability to read and comprehend what other people are saying that facilitates effective communication. It's important to be able to understand the different points of view, and to be able to build consensus based on what everyone involved feels is important.
There are a few key things that you can do to increase your understanding of others. First, be observant.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
comprehend, understand.
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Proper noun, singular
understand.
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Noun, singular or mass
understand.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
Comprehending.
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Adjective
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Reverse Entailment
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Noun, singular or mass
grasp, misunderstanding.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
misunderstanding.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Independent
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Adjective
comprehensible, realise, sensitive, Familiar.
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Proper noun, singular
accord, arrangement, assess, Diversities, understands, accords, arrangements, GSS.
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Noun, singular or mass
acceptance, accommodation, accord, acknowledgement, arrangement, assumption, attention, belief, clarity, cognisance, cognition, compassion, comprehensibility, comprehensiveness, compression, concord, condition, conscience, conviction, course, discernment, dissemination, elucidation, feeling, forbearance, friendship, idea, impression, incomprehension, judgement, judgment, mastery, mind, opinion, perspective, precondition, proviso, realise, reasoning, sense, sensitivity, spirit, thinking, understandability, wisdom, Comprising, principles, definitions, agreement-in-principle.
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Verb, past tense
awareness, disclosed, figured, included, involved, learned, realised, realized, received, saw, Meant, Met, Obtained.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
according, acting, agreeing, agreement, approaching, arguing, arresting, assuming, bearing, believing, bringing, catching, clarifying, complying, concerning, confirming, conveying, covering, crushing, dealing, developing, discriminating, disseminating, drafting, embracing, existing, facing, falling, feeling, fixing, getting, going, grasping, heading, highlighting, increasing, informing, keeping, looking, mapping, mutually, operating, opinion, perceive, quite, raising, ranging, reducing, regarding, ruling, saying, seeing, seeking, seizing, sensitizing, shall, shaping, sitting, solving, studying, tackling, talking, thinking, trying, Achieving, Activities, Adding, Addressing, Aiming, Analyses, Analyzing, Appreciating, Depending, Describing, Doing, Enjoying, Entailing, Establishing, Estimating, Excluding, Experiencing, Exploring, Expressing, Forming, Gauging, Granting, Having, Illustrating, Implying, Indicating, Involving, Managing, Noting, Perceiving, Receiving, Referring, Removing, Comprising, Conceiving, Considering, Containing, Creating, Promoting, Suggesting, challenges, evaluating, unraveling, demonstrating, questions, reviewing, featuring, showcasing, analysing, realising, recognising, us, publicising, uunderstanding.
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Verb, 3rd person singular present
gets, outlines, elucidates, reflects.
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Adjective
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Preposition or subordinating conjunction
understand.
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Adjective
conscious, conversant, sympathetic, understandable.
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Proper noun, singular
agreement, appreciation, awareness, comprehension, interpretation, knowledge, understood, agreements, interpretations.
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Noun, singular or mass
acquaintance, agreement, appreciation, apprehension, attitude, awareness, cognizance, comprehensible, comprehension, conscious, consciousness, consultation, empathy, harmony, indulgence, intelligence, intelligibility, interpretation, knowledge, notion, picture, premise, realisation, realization, sympathy, understandable, understood, views.
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Verb, past tense
comprehension, knowledge.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
appreciation, discerning, knowledge, Ascertaining, Elucidating, Incorporating.
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