Definition of understand

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Understand (v. t.) To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink..

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Understanding :: Understanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Understan.
Keen :: Keen (superl.) Acute of mind; sharp; penetrating; having or expressing mental acuteness; as, a man of keen understanding; a keen look; keen features..
Blindly :: Blindly (adv.) Without sight, discernment, or understanding; without thought, investigation, knowledge, or purpose of one's own..
Understand :: Understand (v. i.) To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being.
Can :: Can (v. t. & i.) To know; to understand.
Comprehensive :: Comprehensive (a.) Having the power to comprehend or understand many things.
Misinterpret :: Misinterpret (v. t.) To interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense.
Idiot :: Idiot (n.) A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool; a natural; an innocent..
Brain :: Brain (n.) The organ or seat of intellect; hence, the understanding..
Praecognita :: Praecognita (n. pl.) This previously known, or which should be known in order to understand something else..
Have :: Have (v. t.) To understand.
Understand :: Understand (v. i.) To be informed; to have or receive knowledge.
Fly :: Fly (a.) Knowing; wide awake; fully understanding another's meaning.
Discernible :: Discernible (a.) Capable of being discerned by the eye or the understanding; as, a star is discernible by the eye; the identity of difference of ideas is discernible by the understanding..
Mystify :: Mystify (v. t.) To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture..
Difficulty :: Difficulty (n.) Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology..
Fool :: Fool (n.) One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural..
Foolish :: Foolish (a.) Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise..
Understand :: Understand (v. t.) To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume.
Blunt :: Blunt (a.) Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; -- opposed to acute.
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