Definition of understanding

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

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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.
Intellectual :: Intellectual (a.) Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person..
Apparent :: Apparent (a.) Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.
Amity :: Amity (n.) Friendship, in a general sense, between individuals, societies, or nations; friendly relations; good understanding; as, a treaty of amity and commerce; the amity of the Whigs and Tories..
Agreement :: Agreement (n.) A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract..
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..
Cognitive :: Cognitive (a.) Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power..
Manifest :: Manifest (a.) Evident to the senses, esp. to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived; hence, obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehensible; plain; not obscure or hidden..
Brainless :: Brainless (a.) Without understanding; silly; thoughtless; witless.
Dark :: Dark (a.) Not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through; obscure; mysterious; hidden.
Indefinitude :: Indefinitude (n.) Indefiniteness; vagueness; also, number or quantity not limited by our understanding, though yet finite..
Dull :: Dull (superl.) Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.
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..
Glassite :: Glassite (n.) A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the understanding. The English and American adherents of this faith are called Sandemanians, after Robert Sandeman, the son-in-law and disciple of Glass..
Reason :: Reason (n.) The faculty or capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals; the higher as distinguished from the lower cognitive faculties, sense, imagination, and memory, and in contrast to the feelings and desires. Reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional faculty. Specifically, it is the intuitional faculty, or the faculty of first truths, as distinguished from the understanding, which is called the discursive o
Level :: Level (a.) Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial; as, a level head; a level understanding. [Colloq.].
Witling :: Witling (n.) A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness.
Apprehension :: Apprehension (n.) The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension..
Blockhead :: Blockhead (n.) A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.
Uptake :: Uptake (n.) Understanding; apprehension.
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