Definition of understanding

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Understanding (n.) 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..

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Babble :: Babble (v. i.) To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat, as words, in a childish way without understanding..
Witless :: Witless (a.) Destitute of wit or understanding; wanting thought; hence, indiscreet; not under the guidance of judgment..
Discern :: Discern (v. t.) To see by the eye or by the understanding; to perceive and recognize; as, to discern a difference..
Understanding :: Understanding (n.) An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another..
Madly :: Madly (a.) In a mad manner; without reason or understanding; wildly.
Understandingly :: Understandingly (adv.) In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly..
Dough-baked :: Dough-baked (a.) Imperfectly baked; hence, not brought to perfection; unfinished; also, of weak or dull understanding..
Sensualism :: Sensualism (n.) The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism..
Misunderstanding :: Misunderstanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Misunderstan.
Subaxillary :: Subaudition (n.) The act of understanding, or supplying, something not expressed; also, that which is so understood or supplied..
Misunderstanding :: Misunderstanding (n.) Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel.
Diswitted :: Diswitted (a.) Deprived of wits or understanding; distracted.
Sound :: Sound (superl.) Healthy; not diseased; not being in a morbid state; -- said of body or mind; as, a sound body; a sound constitution; a sound understanding..
Dull :: Dull (superl.) Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.
Explanation :: Explanation (n.) A mutual exposition of terms, meaning, or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding, and reconcile differences; reconciliation; agreement; as, to come to an explanation..
Blind :: Blind (v. t.) To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.
Stupefy :: Stupefy (v. t.) To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.
Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
Blockish :: Blockish (a.) Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull.
Child :: Child (n.) A young person of either sex. esp. one between infancy and youth; hence, one who exhibits the characteristics of a very young person, as innocence, obedience, trustfulness, limited understanding, etc..
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