Understanding ¹

Definition: of Understand

Understanding ²

Definition: Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.

Understanding ³

Definition: The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.

Understanding ⁴

Definition: An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.

Understanding ⁵

Definition: 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.

Understanding ⁶

Definition: 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.

understanding ⁷

Definition: the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil"

understanding ⁸

Definition: the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"

understanding ⁹

Definition: an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion; "his sympathies were always with the underdog"; "I knew I could count on his understanding"

understanding ¹⁰

Definition: the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises; "they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other''s business"; "there was an understanding between management and the workers"

understanding ¹¹

Definition: characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy; "an understanding friend"