Synonyms for Understanding:

• adj.

  •accepting, tolerant (adjective)
  • empathetic,
  • responsive,
  • perceptive,
  • considerate,
  • sensitive,
  • discerning.
  •agreeable (adjective)
  • congenial,
  • likeable,
  • harmonious,
  • friendly,
  • compatible,
  • amiable,
  • pleasant,
  • assenting,
  • Capitulating,
  • agreeable,
  • willing,
  • acquiescent,
  • consensual.
  •all (adjective)
  • understanding.
  •amicable (adjective)
  • clubbier,
  • more understanding,
  • pacific,
  • re gular,
  • peaceable,
  • re-gular,
  • like minded,
  • clubbiest,
  • goodhumored,
  • most concordant,
  • peaceful,
  • more concordant,
  • good humored,
  • likeminded.
  •appreciative (adjective)
  • more admiring,
  • most admiring,
  • most pleased,
  • co operative,
  • more supportive.
  •brotherly (adjective)
  • dis-interested,
  • more comradely,
  • dis interested,
  • most comradely.
  •charitable (adjective)
  • broad minded,
  • more forgiving.
  •compassionate (adjective)
  • kindhearted,
  • softhearted.
  •conscious (adjective)
  • 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.
  •cultured (adjective)
  • 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 (adjective)
  • expressive,
  • forcible,
  • re-presentative,
  • most revelatory,
  • silvertongued,
  • more revelatory,
  • suggestive,
  • re presentative,
  • silver tongued.
  •favorable (adjective)
  • 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.
  •friendly (adjective)
  • brotherly.
  •humane (adjective)
  • goodnatured,
  • un selfish,
  • good natured,
  • un-selfish.
  •indulgent (adjective)
  • 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.
  •insightful (adjective)
  • ear the ground,
  • knows whats what,
  • ear to ground,
  • most penetrative,
  • ear ground,
  • knows what what,
  • more penetrative.
  •intellectual (adjective)
  • egghead,
  • psychological,
  • intellectual,
  • brainy,
  • rational,
  • cerebral.
  •intelligent (adjective)
  • more intelligent,
  • all there.
  •kind (adjective)
  • 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.
  •knowledgeable (adjective)
  • 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.
  •liberal (adjective)
  • 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.
  •observant (adjective)
  • 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.
  •patient (adjective)
  • 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.
  •pitying (adjective)
  • Condolatory.
  •sage (adjective)
  • fore sighted,
  • fore-sighted.
  •sensitive (adjective)
  • sensory,
  • sensatory,
  • turned on to,
  • supersensitive,
  • emotionable,
  • sensile,
  • oversensitive,
  • reactive,
  • Susceptive,
  • easily affected,
  • touchy feely,
  • hypersensitive.
  •sympathetic (adjective)
  • more caring,
  • most condoling,
  • more appreciating,
  • more condoling,
  • having heart right place,
  • more sympathizing,
  • most appreciating,
  • most caring,
  • more commiserating,
  • most sympathizing,
  • most commiserating.
  •tactful (adjective)
  • more poised,
  • tactical,
  • most poised.
  •tolerant (adjective)
  • more excusing,
  • free easy,
  • most excusing.
  •wise (adjective)
  • more sensing,
  • wisest,
  • most sensing.

• n.

  •
  • grip,
  • grasp,
  • hold.
  •
  • clarity,
  • common sense,
  • wit,
  • brilliance,
  • intuition.
  •
  • agree,
  • condolences.
  •
  • forbearing,
  • understand.
  •
  • generous,
  • kindly,
  • significance,
  • substance,
  • thrust,
  • denotation,
  • usage,
  • connotation.
  •ability (noun)
  • re-sourcefulness,
  • under standing,
  • under standings,
  • under-standing,
  • under-standings,
  • re sourcefulnesses,
  • re-sourcefulnesses,
  • re sourcefulness.
  •acquaintance (noun)
  • conversances.
  •acumen (noun)
  • in tuitions,
  • in-tuitions,
  • in-tuition,
  • good tastes,
  • smartnesses,
  • in tuition.
  •agreement (noun)
  • assent,
  • capitulation,
  • agreement,
  • concurrence,
  • accordance,
  • compact,
  • unanimity,
  • accord,
  • stipulation,
  • concordance,
  • pact,
  • empathy,
  • acquiescence,
  • consensus,
  • pledge,
  • settlement,
  • bond,
  • covenant,
  • accession,
  • promise,
  • acceptance,
  • arrangement.
  •appreciation (noun)
  • aesthetic senses,
  • high regards,
  • re-spect,
  • re spects,
  • responsivenessses,
  • re spect,
  • re gards,
  • re-gard,
  • re-spects.
  •apprehension (noun)
  • apprehension.
  •awareness (noun)
  • in formations,
  • in-formations,
  • in-formation,
  • alivenesses,
  • sentiences,
  • bodhis.
  •bargain (noun)
  • pro mises,
  • pro-mise,
  • pro mise,
  • pro-mises.
  •belief (noun)
  • conclusion,
  • opinion,
  • view,
  • impression,
  • viewpoint,
  • signification,
  • acceptation,
  • hypothesis,
  • inkling,
  • thesis,
  • Significancy,
  • estimation.
  •brainpower (noun)
  • mental capacity,
  • intellectual powers,
  • mental ability,
  • intellectual power.
  •comprehension, appreciation (noun)
  • apperception,
  • assimilation,
  • sense,
  • perceptiveness,
  • penetration,
  • knowledge,
  • knowing,
  • prehension,
  • sharpness.
  •compromise (noun)
  • tradeoff,
  • trade off,
  • fifty-fifty,
  • middle courses,
  • copout,
  • tradeoffs,
  • half and half,
  • half measure,
  • middle course,
  • win-win situation,
  • half measures.
  •consent (noun)
  • yes,
  • yeses,
  • say so,
  • sufferance,
  • stamp of approval.
  •contract (noun)
  • liabilities,
  • Mise,
  • handshakes,
  • handshake,
  • MISES.
  •convention (noun)
  • pre cept,
  • covenances,
  • pre-cept.
  •cordiality (noun)
  • sweetness light,
  • enjoyablenesses,
  • wholeheartednesses.
  •deal (noun)
  • pre arrangements,
  • pre-arrangement,
  • pre arrangement,
  • pre-arrangements.
  •decipherment (noun)
  • de codings,
  • de-coding,
  • de-codings,
  • ex plication,
  • ex-plication,
  • de coding,
  • ex-plications,
  • decryptions.
  •decision (noun)
  • 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.
  •discrimination (noun)
  • subtlety,
  • Astucity,
  • selectivity,
  • selectiveness.
  •experience (noun)
  • inwardness,
  • worldliness,
  • knowhow,
  • exposure,
  • forebearance.
  •friendship (noun)
  • favoritism,
  • amicability,
  • amicabilities.
  •genius (noun)
  • precocities,
  • superabilities.
  •gentleman's agreement (noun)
  • pactums,
  • gentleman agreement,
  • gentlemans agreement,
  • unspoken agreements,
  • unwritten agreements,
  • gentleman-agreement,
  • verbal agreements,
  • gentleman's-agreement,
  • tacit agreements,
  • gentlemans-agreement.
  •gentlemen's agreement (noun)
  • gentlemen-agreement,
  • gentlemens-agreement,
  • gentlemens agreement,
  • gentlemen agreement,
  • nonformal agreements,
  • gentlemen's-agreement.
  •harmony (noun)
  • like-mindedness,
  • co-operation,
  • meeting of mind,
  • meeting of minds,
  • co-operations.
  •heart (noun)
  • dis positions,
  • dis-position,
  • dis position,
  • dis-positions.
  •horse sense (noun)
  • horse sense,
  • good sense,
  • plain sense.
  •idea (noun)
  • believed abstraction.
  •import (noun)
  • name the game,
  • nature beast,
  • name game,
  • nuts bolts.
  •indulgence (noun)
  • 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.
  •informal agreement (noun)
  • common view.
  •insight (noun)
  • in-sight,
  • in sights,
  • in-sights.
  •intellect (noun)
  • rationality,
  • brain,
  • comprehension,
  • thinking,
  • thought,
  • cerebration,
  • brain-power,
  • capacity,
  • reasoning,
  • mind.
  •intelligence (noun)
  • smarts,
  • IQS,
  • trenchancy,
  • the right stuff.
  •intent/intention (noun)
  • co nations,
  • in tents,
  • co nation,
  • co-nations,
  • conations,
  • de sire,
  • de sires,
  • de-sire,
  • co-nation,
  • in-tents,
  • de-sires.
  •intimacy (noun)
  • close relationships.
  •ken (noun)
  • apprehendings,
  • realizings.
  •kindness (noun)
  • serviceabilities,
  • solicitousnesses,
  • un selfishness,
  • un selfishnesses,
  • un-selfishness,
  • graciousnesses,
  • un-selfishnesses,
  • good intentions.
  •knowledge (noun)
  • education,
  • erudition,
  • know-how,
  • cognizance,
  • information.
  •lenience (noun)
  • broad mindednesses,
  • broad-mindednesses,
  • liberalnesses,
  • broad mindedness,
  • broadmindednesses.
  •lenity (noun)
  • lenity.
  •mastery (noun)
  • ex-pertness,
  • expertisms,
  • ex-pertnesses,
  • ex pertness,
  • virtuosities,
  • ex pertnesses.
  •meaning (noun)
  • symbolization,
  • nitty gritty.
  •mentality (noun)
  • out-look,
  • frame mind,
  • out look,
  • turn mind,
  • way thinking,
  • head-sets,
  • head set,
  • head sets,
  • out-looks,
  • out looks.
  •notice (noun)
  • re marks,
  • re mark,
  • re-marks.
  •obligation (noun)
  • committal,
  • devoir,
  • committals,
  • oughts,
  • due bill,
  • ought,
  • obligation,
  • Accountableness,
  • devoirs.
  •open-mindedness (noun)
  • openmindedness,
  • open mindedness.
  •perceptiveness (noun)
  • clearsightedness.
  •pity (noun)
  • Condolement.
  •promise (noun)
  • guarantee,
  • vow,
  • oath,
  • assurance,
  • mutual agreement,
  • engagement.
  •rationality (noun)
  • rhyme reason.
  •reading (noun)
  • 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.
  •reason (noun)
  • rationalism,
  • sensibleness,
  • reasonableness,
  • generalizations,
  • generalization,
  • sens,
  • sound mind.
  •recognition (noun)
  • 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.
  •rumination (noun)
  • excogitation.
  •sagacity (noun)
  • levelheadedness,
  • good judgment.
  •sanity (noun)
  • Normalities,
  • healthy mind,
  • clear mind,
  • judiciousness,
  • right mind,
  • saneness.
  •savvy (noun)
  • knowings.
  •sense (noun)
  • clearheadedness,
  • denotatiton,
  • clear-headedness,
  • rationalness,
  • nature of the beast,
  • shorts.
  •sympathy (noun)
  • mutual fondnesses,
  • re-assurance,
  • re assurance,
  • warmheartednesses,
  • mutual attractions,
  • re assurances,
  • re-assurances.
  •tact (noun)
  • tactfulness,
  • delicatesse,
  • savoir faire,
  • suavity,
  • politicness.
  •taste (noun)
  • druthers.
  •terms (noun)
  • 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.
  •theory (noun)
  • formularizations.
  •thought (noun)
  • inducing,
  • theorizations,
  • introspection,
  • ideations,
  • ideation,
  • theorization,
  • seeings.
  •tolerance (noun)
  • liberalisms.
  •vision (noun)
  • Idealities,
  • Visions,
  • castles in the air,
  • breadth of view,
  • castles in air,
  • mental picture,
  • mental pictures,
  • ideality.
  •wisdom (noun)
  • pansophies.

• 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.
  •knowing (verb)
  • Perceiving,
  • Recognizing.
  •learning (verb)
  • grasping,
  • Realizing,
  • assimilating,
  • mastering,
  • absorbing,
  • studying,
  • Digesting,
  • Discovering,
  • learning,
  • Comprehending,
  • Gleaning.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • 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.
  •
  • affinity,
  • interpretation,
  • ripe,
  • humanity,
  • sensitivity,
  • liberal,
  • acquaintance,
  • embrace,
  • identification,
  • merciful,
  • sentiment,
  • clement.
  •
  • bargain.
  •
  • picture.
  •Other relevant words:
  • correspondence,
  • penetrating,
  • sensible,
  • apprehensive,
  • reasonable,
  • nous,
  • gray matter,
  • judgement,
  • comprehensive,
  • psyche,
  • bright,
  • mutual understanding,
  • Brains,
  • Apprehending,
  • entente,
  • piercing.

Paraphrases for Understanding:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    understand, comprehend.
  • Proper noun, singular
    understand.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    understand.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Comprehending.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    misunderstanding, grasp.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    misunderstanding.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    realise, sensitive, comprehensible, Familiar.
  • Proper noun, singular
    Diversities, GSS, assess, understands, arrangement, arrangements, accord, accords.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    sense, idea, comprehensibility, assumption, incomprehension, conscience, sensitivity, mind, discernment, thinking, cognition, elucidation, belief, impression, definitions, forbearance, opinion, compression, understandability, realise, principles, wisdom, arrangement, course, perspective, acknowledgement, reasoning, spirit, cognisance, feeling, Comprising, concord, comprehensiveness, compassion, mastery, friendship, acceptance, conviction, judgement, attention, clarity, dissemination, condition, agreement-in-principle, accommodation, accord, proviso, judgment, precondition.
  • Verb, past tense
    realised, learned, realized, included, disclosed, saw, Obtained, received, involved, figured, Meant, Met, awareness.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    realising, Appreciating, unraveling, uunderstanding, discriminating, recognising, evaluating, grasping, assuming, demonstrating, Addressing, Considering, quite, Suggesting, Describing, perceive, Perceiving, disseminating, Illustrating, catching, arguing, informing, regarding, Indicating, agreeing, existing, Analyses, analysing, Analyzing, sensitizing, Gauging, Expressing, believing, arresting, Estimating, Managing, Exploring, confirming, Removing, clarifying, Excluding, Activities, saying, Conceiving, tackling, Establishing, embracing, bearing, Noting, Depending, publicising, studying, ranging, solving, conveying, ruling, drafting, crushing, Enjoying, featuring, questions, seeing, seizing, mutually, reducing, Containing, shaping, Granting, increasing, facing, us, Creating, Experiencing, according, Promoting, raising, complying, Achieving, Implying, challenges, sitting, Entailing, Receiving, fixing, developing, Involving, seeking, operating, showcasing, highlighting, heading, reviewing, dealing, covering, concerning, Referring, Having, mapping, keeping, talking, trying, bringing, Aiming, shall, looking, falling, Adding, approaching, acting, Forming, going, Doing, getting, agreement, thinking, opinion, feeling, Comprising.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    elucidates, reflects, outlines, gets.

• Other Related

  • Preposition or subordinating conjunction
    understand.
  • Adjective
    sympathetic, understandable, conscious, conversant.
  • Proper noun, singular
    agreement, agreements, understood, comprehension, appreciation, awareness, knowledge, interpretation, interpretations.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    agreement, understood, sympathy, consciousness, acquaintance, realisation, realization, notion, indulgence, intelligibility, views, comprehension, intelligence, appreciation, picture, awareness, harmony, empathy, premise, apprehension, knowledge, understandable, cognizance, conscious, comprehensible, consultation, attitude, interpretation.
  • Verb, past tense
    comprehension, knowledge.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    discerning, Ascertaining, Elucidating, Incorporating, appreciation, knowledge.

Antonyms for Understanding:

• adj.

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

• n.

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