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understand
English
Alternative forms
- understaund (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English understanden, from Old English understandan (“to understand”), from Proto-Germanic *under (“between”) + *standan? (“to stand”), equivalent to Old English under- (“between, inter-”) + standan (“to stand”). Cognate with Old Frisian understonda (“to understand, experience, learn”), Old High German understantan (“to understand”), Middle Danish understande (“to understand”). Compare also Saterland Frisian understunda, unnerstounde (“to dare, survey, measure”), Dutch onderstaan (“to undertake, presume”), German unterstehen (“to be subordinate”). More at inter-, stand.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?n(?)d?r-st?nd', IPA(key): /(?)?nd??stænd/,
- (General American) enPR: ?n?d?r-st?nd', IPA(key): /??nd??stænd/, [??????stænd], [??????ste??nd]
- (Ireland) IPA(key): /??nd???stand/
- Rhymes: -ænd
- Hyphenation: un?der?stand
Verb
understand (third-person singular simple present understands, present participle understanding, simple past and past participle understood)
- (transitive) To grasp a concept fully and thoroughly, especially (of words, statements, art, etc.) to be aware of the meaning of and (of people) to be aware of the intent of.
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 20:
- ‘I came back here, had a wank and finished that book.’
‘The Naked Lunch?’
‘Yeah.’
‘What did you reckon?’
‘Crap.’
‘You're just saying that because you didn't understand it,’ said Adrian.
‘I'm just saying that because I did understand it,’ said Tom. ‘Any road up, we'd better start making some toast.’
- ‘I came back here, had a wank and finished that book.’
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 20:
- To believe, to think one grasps sufficiently despite potentially incomplete knowledge.
- (humorous, rare, obsolete outside circus, acrobatics) To stand underneath, to support.
Usage notes
- In its sense of "imputing meaning", use is usually limited to the past participle understood.
- The obsolete perfect form understanded is occasionally found, e.g. in the Book of Common Prayer and the 39 Articles of the Anglican Church.
Synonyms
- (to fully grasp a concept): apprehend, comprehend, grasp, know, perceive, pick up what someone is putting down, realise, grok
- (to believe one grasps a concept): believe
Antonyms
- misunderstand
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- explain
- why
Further reading
- understand in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- understand in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- unstranded
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understandably
English
Etymology
understandable +? -ly
Adverb
understandably (comparative more understandably, superlative most understandably)
- For reasons that are easy to understand or sympathise with.
- Understandably, he was too embarrassed to speak.
- Embarrassed, he understandably refused to speak.
- He was understandably embarrassed, and could not speak.
- In an understandable manner.
- When presenting in front of the class, take care to speak clearly and understandably.
Translations
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