Understanding is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for UNDERSTANDING in dictionary:

VERB:
• perceive the intended meaning of (words, a language, or a speaker)
• perceive the significance, explanation, or cause of
• interpret or view (something) in a particular way
• infer something from information received (often used as a polite formula in conversation)
• regard (a missing word, phrase, or idea) as present
• assume to be the case; take for granted
• be sympathetically or knowledgeably aware of the character or nature of
NOUN:
• a mental grasp
• The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
• An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.
• 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.
• 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.
• the cognitive condition of someone who understands
• the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises
• an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
• the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
• mental grasp
ADJECTIVE:
• Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
• characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a mental grasp; comprehension

Words related to UNDERSTANDING

understand12 understandingly21 understandings17

Words that contain UNDERSTANDING

understandings17 understandingly21 misunderstanding21 misunderstandings22

How to use UNDERSTANDING in a sentence

• He possessed a strong understanding, with great coolness and courage.
• It was characteristic of the man to display understanding rather than pity.
• Here I must add a passage, concerning which I am in doubt whether it reflected more on the sincerity, or on the understanding of the English Ambassador.
• In order to arrive at a clear understanding of their religious views, a longer intercourse would be necessary.
• Understanding that he was to be at Covent Garden Theatre, I went, as the best place to see him, and I was not disappointed.
• To Channing it seemed shameful that, although the slave lived in a land of light, few beams found their way to his benighted understanding.
• External and internal perception are the only windows through which the light of ideas penetrates into the dark chamber of the understanding.
• The understanding may be compared to a mirror, which, without independent activity and without being consulted, takes up the images of things.
• The one thing that is His, is the perfect understanding, the perfect joy, the perfect love, of all things that He has made.
• Johnson was, that she had a good understanding and great sensibility, but inclined to be satirical.
• They thus represented the conjunction of the heart and lungs, and at the same time the correspondence of these with the love of the will and with the wisdom of the understanding.
• Unto this testifieth every understanding heart, and every man of insight.
• Lord, enlarge my understanding to comprehend more and more of the height and depth, length and breadth of the love of Christ, which passeth all understanding.
• To suppose that you can properly regulate this process of forming and accumulating ideas, without understanding the nature of the process, is absurd.
• It is only when we have such a clear understanding that we can profitably pursue the further inquiries into the evidence of evolution.
• For love, in its last analysis, is understanding, and where there is understanding of our fellows there can hardly fail to be wisdom in our method of treating them.
• He recognised in her tone a certain shyness which seemed to appeal to him for protection, and he was profoundly stirred by it without at all understanding it.
• This heavenly food is knowledge, understanding, faith, assurance, love, affinity, kindness, purity of purpose, attraction of hearts and the union of souls.
• A proper understanding of the use of the combined arms is as essential to success in battle as cooeperation between the different members of a football team is to its success.
• Felix and Hilda shared in her childish pleasure without understanding the deep springs from which it came.
• He was in a difficulty concerning the want of understanding as to the number of sacred books.
• Hume a man of deeper and more solid understanding than Mr.
• The different kinds of social insurance had different origins, some knowledge of which is necessary to an understanding of the present situation.
• But the necessity for some species of understanding pressed upon her.
• We found no other beds in the house, and then we knew that only two had lived here, and this passes understanding.
• Have they decided between this and the Sabbath of the Lord, understanding the claims of each? No.
• This hurt him, and had he the understanding and eloquence of Paul himself, would still hurt him.
• In understanding? I would mine were from this instant under the guardianship of his.
• The memory is ever the index of the heart and the will and the understanding.
• Determined on having an understanding with him I again sought him the following morning.
• Peter in saying something was saying that he was understanding something by knowing that he had heard before what he was then hearing.
• He who profits of a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior understanding he unites with.
• His fealty to the king consisted merely in an understanding that he was to follow the banner of the sovereign in case of war.
• It needed only a full understanding between these two to complete their own great happiness.
• May God give understanding to him who shall have to decide this matter.

Similar words containing DERSTAND without suffix ing and without prefix un

understand12 understands13 understanded15 understander14 misunderstand17 understanders15 misunderstands18 understandable18 understandably21 understandings17 understandingly21 ununderstandabl19 misunderstandin19 understandabili19 ununderstandable20 misunderstanding21 misunderstandings22 understandability24 understandabilities23

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