Word Meaning

understanding definition and meaning

p. pr. & vb. n. of Understand
a. Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
n. The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
n. An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.
n. 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.
n. 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.

Crossword clues for understanding

- Agreement is subordinate to position in society
- Awful dating run ends in mutual agreement
- Comprehension
- conceding
- Empathetic agreement
- Grasp below social position