Definition of understanding

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Understanding (a.) Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man..

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Mess :: Mess (n.) A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it..
Blockish :: Blockish (a.) Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull.
Witted :: Witted (a.) Having (such) a wit or understanding; as, a quick-witted boy..
Cognizance :: Cognizance (n.) Apprehension by the understanding; perception; observation.
Intellection :: Intellection (n.) A mental act or process; especially: (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itself.
Unwit :: Unwit (n.) Want of wit or understanding; ignorance.
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..
Intellectualist :: Intellectualist (n.) One who overrates the importance of the understanding.
Misapprehension :: Misapprehension (n.) A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.
Learn :: Learn (v. t.) To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acquire understanding of, or skill; as, to learn the way; to learn a lesson; to learn dancing; to learn to skate; to learn the violin; to learn the truth about something..
Clear-seeing :: Clear-seeing (a.) Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding.
Blind :: Blind (n.) Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge..
Head :: Head (n.) The seat of the intellect; the brain; the understanding; the mental faculties; as, a good head, that is, a good mind; it never entered his head, it did not occur to him; of his own head, of his own thought or will..
Intendment :: Intendment (n.) The true meaning, understanding, or intention of a law, or of any legal instrument..
Understanding :: Understanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Understan.
Inunderstanding :: Inunderstanding (a.) Void of understanding.
Manifestation :: Manifestation (n.) The act of manifesting or disclosing, or the state of being manifested; discovery to the eye or to the understanding; also, that which manifests; exhibition; display; revelation; as, the manifestation of God's power in creation..
Heart :: Heart (n.) The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; -- usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish h
Intelligence :: Intelligence (n.) The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.
Fly :: Fly (a.) Knowing; wide awake; fully understanding another's meaning.
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