Synonyms for understand
ˌʌn dərˈstændun·der·stand

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1. understandverb

   Antonyms:
   misunderstand

2. understandverb

   To be aware of the meaning of.

   Synonyms:
   grasp, apprehend, comprehend, grok, realise, perceive, know

   Antonyms:
   misunderstand

3. understandverb

   To believe, based on information.

   I understand that you have information for me.

   Synonyms:
   believe

   Antonyms:
   misunderstand

4. understandverb

   Antonyms:
   misunderstand

5. understandverb

   Antonyms:
   misunderstand

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1. understand

   We perceive what is presented through the senses. We apprehend what is presented to the mind, whether through the senses or by any other means. Yet perceive is used in the figurative sense of seeing through to a conclusion, in a way for which usage would not allow us to substitute apprehend; as, "Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet," John iv, 19. That which we apprehend we catch, as with the hand; that which we conceive we are able to analyze and recompose in our mind; that which we comprehend, we, as it were, grasp around, take together, seize, embrace wholly within the mind. Many things may be apprehended which can not be comprehended; a child can apprehend the distinction between right and wrong, yet the philosopher can not comprehend it in its fulness. We can apprehend the will of God as revealed in conscience or the Scriptures; we can conceive of certain attributes of Deity, as his truth and justice; but no finite intelligence can comprehend the Divine Nature, in its majesty, power, and perfection. Compare ANTICIPATE; ARREST; CATCH; KNOWLEDGE.

   Synonyms:
   apprehend, comprehend, conceive, perceive

   Antonyms:
   fail of, ignore, lose, misapprehend, misconceive, miss, overlook

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1. understand

   Synonyms:
   apprehend, comprehend, know, perceive, discern, conceive, learn, recognize, interpret, imply

   Antonyms:
   misapprehend, miscomprehend, ignore, misinterpret, declare, state, enunciate, express

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1. understandverb

   know and comprehend the nature or meaning of

   "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means"

   Synonyms:
   see, translate, realize, sympathise, realise, infer, sympathize, empathize, read, empathise, interpret

2. understand, realize, realise, seeverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   earn, experience, take in, figure, date, go out, pull in, look, recognise, reckon, examine, go through, read, image, see to it, find, substantiate, go steady, actualize, construe, agnise, meet, view, get word, actualise, check, make, agnize, run across, see, find out, ascertain, fancy, picture, gain, translate, visualize, regard, empathize, realise, control, encounter, sympathise, assure, envision, watch, sympathize, run into, clear, infer, come across, determine, get a line, recognize, take care, escort, witness, get wind, ensure, attend, pick up, interpret, bring in, catch, visualise, consider, empathise, learn, realize, project, visit, discover, insure, hear

3. understand, read, interpret, translateverb

   make sense of a language

   "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?"

   Synonyms:
   construe, infer, scan, say, represent, sympathise, transform, show, empathize, rede, register, learn, interpret, sympathize, translate, study, record, empathise, take, realise, read, realize, render, see

4. understand, inferverb

   believe to be the case

   "I understand you have no previous experience?"

   Synonyms:
   generalize, derive, infer, realise, generalise, sympathise, extrapolate, empathize, interpret, sympathize, translate, deduct, empathise, read, guess, realize, deduce, see

5. sympathize, sympathise, empathize, empathise, understandverb

   be understanding of

   "You don't need to explain--I understand!"

   Synonyms:
   see, translate, realize, sympathise, realise, commiserate, sympathize, empathize, infer, read, empathise, interpret

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1. • Believe

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1. understandverb

   Synonyms:
   apprehend, conceive, perceive, know, COMPREHEND, penetrate, discern, see, have knowledge of, see through, make out

2. understandverb

   Synonyms:
   interpret, take, suppose to mean

3. understandverb

   Synonyms:
   mean, imply

4. understandverb

   Synonyms:
   [Rare.] be an intelligent being, have understanding

5. understandverb

   Synonyms:
   learn, hear, be apprised, be informed

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1. understandverb

   Synonyms:
   comprehend, apprehend, grasp, discern

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1. List of paraphrases for "understand":

   understanding, comprehend, realise, include, understood, appreciate, grasp, know, realize, comprise, see, comprendre, fathom, recognise, includes, consist, awareness, hear

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How to use understand in a sentence?

1. Catherine McDougall:

   I think they didn't understand how much Mr Kabbaj stood to gain personally from his relationship with them. They were ... very effusive and very welcoming and they trusted people. They thought he was their friend.

2. Scott Ransom:

   Neutron stars have this tipping point where their interior densities get so extreme that the force of gravity overwhelms even the ability of neutrons to resist further collapse, each most massive neutron star we find brings us closer to identifying that tipping point and helping us to understand the physics of matter at these mind-boggling densities.

3. Dorchen Leidholdt:

   We understand the reason to release people at Rikers Island. We are supportive of that, the fact that there are defendants with domestic violence charges against them being released, where scrutiny is clearly not happening, that's positively alarming.

4. Glib Bidyukov:

   When you choose healthcare, you understand that you put yourself in some danger… Each of us made a choice a long time ago.

5. Billy Crystal:

   It's gon na be four years in August and it just -- it feels like a second ago, but I just hope that people will come and see this movie and understand a little bit more about the man and what made him this explosively funny genius.