What is another word for understand?
Synonyms for understand
ˌʌn dərˈstændun·der·stand
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Wiktionary
understandverb
Antonyms:
misunderstandunderstandverb
To be aware of the meaning of.
Synonyms:
grasp, apprehend, comprehend, grok, realise, perceive, knowAntonyms:
misunderstandunderstandverb
To believe, based on information.
I understand that you have information for me.
Synonyms:
believeAntonyms:
misunderstandunderstandverb
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misunderstandunderstandverb
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misunderstand
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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, perceiveAntonyms:
fail of, ignore, lose, misapprehend, misconceive, miss, overlook
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
understand
Synonyms:
apprehend, comprehend, know, perceive, discern, conceive, learn, recognize, interpret, implyAntonyms:
misapprehend, miscomprehend, ignore, misinterpret, declare, state, enunciate, express
Princeton's WordNet
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, interpretunderstand, 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, hearunderstand, 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, seeunderstand, 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, seesympathize, 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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Dictionary of English Synonymes
understandverb
Synonyms:
apprehend, conceive, perceive, know, COMPREHEND, penetrate, discern, see, have knowledge of, see through, make outunderstandverb
Synonyms:
interpret, take, suppose to meanunderstandverb
understandverb
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[Rare.] be an intelligent being, have understandingunderstandverb
Synonyms:
learn, hear, be apprised, be informed
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
understandverb
Synonyms:
comprehend, apprehend, grasp, discern
PPDB, the paraphrase database
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?
We need to understand why those reports weren’t investigated or further action wasn’t taken.
It had to pass two general assemblies, and now it's gotta be on the ballot and people don't really understand what they're talking about, it's been in our constitution since 1870, and it wasn't talking about slavery like people think about slavery. It was the wording. They were talking about prisoners and we still, you know, confine prisoners. It's not slavery, but it is confining prisoners and that's what it was talking about.
In a sense, they (North Korea) have given us no choice but to cooperate on enhancing pressure on North Korea, i think the Chinese understand as chair of the six-party process, they have a special responsibility to get the North Koreans to work with us towards denuclearization.
They are dealing with the current pandemic, but they also understand there's another pandemic we're dealing with as well. To see them in Brooklyn, coming out to support the movement uplifted me.
Why, when it’s so important now, to address climate change, and to understand the violence to the animals that go on to make dairy products… and there’s no reason for it except greed, when will you stop raking in huge profits while customers, animals and the environment suffer? When will you stop penalizing people for their ethnicities, their morals?
Translations for understand
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- verstaanAfrikaans
- فهمArabic
- бичӏчӏизеAvaric
- anlamaqAzerbaijani
- разумець, зразумецьBelarusian
- разбирамBulgarian
- বোঝাBengali
- comprendre, entendreCatalan, Valencian
- chápat, pochopit, rozumět, porozumětCzech
- deallWelsh
- begribe, forstå, fatte, underforstå, opfatte, mene, indseDanish
- den Eindruck haben, verstehen, glauben, begreifenGerman
- κατανοώ, αντιλαμβάνομαι, καταλαβαίνωGreek
- kompreniEsperanto
- entender, comprenderSpanish
- mõistma, aru saamaEstonian
- ulertuBasque
- فهمیدنPersian
- osata, hiffata, ymmärtää, uskoa, kässätä, käsittää, snaijata, älytä, tajuta, bonjataFinnish
- entendre, comprendreFrench
- ferstean, begripeWestern Frisian
- tuigIrish
- הביןHebrew
- समझनाHindi
- tud, felfog, megért, értesül, értHungarian
- հասկանալArmenian
- comprenderInterlingua
- pahamIndonesian
- skilja, skiljastIcelandic
- capire, comprendere, intendereItalian
- 理解する, 信じる, 分かる, 理解Japanese
- გაგებაGeorgian
- түсіну, ұғуKazakh
- យល់Khmer
- 이해하다, 알다Korean
- تێگهیشت, سهر لێ دهرچونKurdish
- аңдоо, түшүнүүKyrgyz
- intellegō, interpretor, video, comprehendō, capio, conspicio, percipio, teneo, scio, crēdō, exaudioLatin
- ເຂົ້າໃຈLao
- suprastiLithuanian
- saprastLatvian
- orotau, mātau, aweko, aroMāori
- разбираMacedonian
- мэдэх, ойлгохMongolian
- memahamiMalay
- fehemMaltese
- နားလည်Burmese
- snappen, begrijpen, geloven, verstaanDutch
- kunne, forstå, skjønne, fatteNorwegian
- ӕмбарынOssetian, Ossetic
- [[być]] [[świadomy, rozumieć, pojmowaćPolish
- compreender, acreditar, entenderPortuguese
- capir, tgapeir, chapirRomansh
- înțelege, pricepeRomanian
- понимать, понять, разуметьRussian
- cumprèndhere, cumprendiSardinian
- razumjeti, разумјети, razumeti, разуметиSerbo-Croatian
- තේරෙනවාSinhala, Sinhalese
- rozumieťSlovak
- razumétiSlovene
- përvetësoj, ftillohem, kuptoj, besojAlbanian
- förståSwedish
- elewaSwahili
- గ్రహించుటTelugu
- фаҳмиданTajik
- รู้เรื่อง, เข้าใจ, ทราบThai
- düşünmekTurkmen
- maintindihanTagalog
- anlamakTurkish
- аңларгаTatar
- розумітиUkrainian
- سمجھناUrdu
- anglamoq, tushunmoqUzbek
- hiểuVietnamese
- פֿאַרשטייןYiddish
- 理解Chinese
- qonda, bonaZulu
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