Words Like UNDERSTANDING
    
   We have put together a list of words that are similar to UNDERSTANDING.
    
    
    
        
            38 Alternative Words Similar to understanding
   
            
               
            
            
        
       
    
    
        4 examples of understanding
           
        
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        he is an understanding man
    
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        to come to an understanding with another
    
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        I knew I could count on his understanding
    
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        there was an understanding between management and the workers
    
       
    
    
        10 definitions of understanding
           
        
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        Knowing; intelligent; skillful.
    
    
    
 
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        The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
    
    
    
 
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        An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon.
    
    
    
 
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        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.
    
    
    
 
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        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.
    
    
    
 
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        an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
    
    
    
 
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        the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
    
    
    
 
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        characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy
    
    
    
 
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        the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises
    
    
    
 
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        the cognitive condition of someone who understands