Associations to the word «Understand»
Noun
- Hearer
- Meaning
- Comprehension
- Subtlety
- Motive
- Intellect
- Empathy
- Implication
- Inability
- Interpreter
- Context
- Understanding
- Reasoning
- Allusion
- Predicament
- Mechanism
- Drow
- Dynamic
- Mentality
- Don
- Better
- Grasp
- Metaphor
- Worldview
- Seriousness
- Motivation
- Utterance
- How
- Phenomenon
- Reader
- Reluctance
- Significance
- Complexity
- Idiom
- Feeling
- Cognition
- Parable
- Analogy
- Signified
- Ender
- Scripture
- Word
- Intuition
- Necessity
- Explanation
- Ignorance
- Perplexity
Adjective
Verb
Wiktionary
UNDERSTAND, verb. (transitive) To be aware of the meaning of.
UNDERSTAND, verb. To believe, based on information.
UNDERSTAND, verb. To impute meaning, character etc. that is not explicitly stated.
UNDERSTAND, verb. (obsolete) (rare) (humorous) To stand under; to support.
Dictionary definition
UNDERSTAND, verb. Know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means".
UNDERSTAND, verb. Perceive (an idea or situation) mentally; "Now I see!"; "I just can't see your point"; "Does she realize how important this decision is?"; "I don't understand the idea".
UNDERSTAND, verb. Make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?".
UNDERSTAND, verb. Believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?".
UNDERSTAND, verb. Be understanding of; "You don't need to explain--I understand!".
Wise words
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more
value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an
idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words,
but a great deal in a few.