1. understanding - Noun
2. understanding - Adjective
3. understanding - Verb
5. understanding - Adjective Satellite
of Understand
Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.
The power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends.
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMuch learning does not teach understanding. Heraclitus
In the old days, people knew a little and understood a lot. Then they gained more knowledge which led to less understanding. And now people know a lot but understand nothing at all. John Krestiankin
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung
An understanding person needs only half a word. Dutch Proverb
Be not disturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed rather at not being understanding. Chinese Proverb
The well-filled belly has little understanding of the empty. Irish Proverb