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- Dictionaryunderstand/ˌʌndəˈstand/
verb
- 1. perceive the intended meaning of (words, a language, or a speaker): "he didn't understand a word I said"
- 2. interpret or view (something) in a particular way: "as the term is usually understood, legislation refers to regulations and directives"
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to think, especially wrongly, that someone means or something is about a particular thing: When he said three o'clock, I understood him to mean in the afternoon. See more. understand each other/one another. When two people understand one another, they both know what the other means and wants and they have an agreement:
understand, comprehend, appreciate mean to have a clear or complete idea of. understand and comprehend are very often interchangeable. understand may, however, stress the fact of having attained a firm mental grasp of something. orders that were fully understood and promptly obeyed.
To understand something is to comprehend or get it. The more we learn, the more we understand.
adjective. approving uk / ˌʌn.dəˈstæn.dɪŋ / us / ˌʌn.dɚˈstæn.dɪŋ / B2. An understanding person who has the ability to know how other people are feeling, and can forgive them if they do something wrong: He had expected her to be horrified, but she was actually very understanding. More examples.
To understand something is to be thoroughly familiar with it, or to apprehend clearly its character, nature, or subtleties. How is understand different from know and comprehend? Find out on Thesaurus.com.
Definition of understand verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. : a mental grasp : comprehension. 2. a. : the power of comprehending. especially : the capacity to apprehend general relations of particulars. b. : the power to make experience intelligible by applying concepts and categories. 3. a. : a mutual agreement not formally entered into but in some degree binding on each side. b.
