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Words related to understand

Related / Similar Words: realize, realise, see, infer, read, interpret, translate, sympathize, sympathise, empathize, empathise

Definition:

know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means";

perceive (an idea or situation) mentally; "Now I see!"; "I just can''t see your point"; "Does she realize how important this decision is?"; "I don''t understand the idea";

believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?";

make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?";

be understanding of; "You don''t need to explain--I understand!";

Hyponyms: get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend, sense, follow, catch, get, touch, read, interpret, translate, construe, see, make out, solve, work out, figure out, puzzle out, lick, work, penetrate, fathom, bottom, perceive, appreciate, take account

Grouped Verbs: visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image

Derivational Morphology: understanding, apprehension, discernment, savvy, realization, realisation, recognition, sympathy, empathy

Anagrams: transudate, understate

Language Translations:
Bulgarian: разбирам		Dutch: begrijpen
Esperanto: kompreni		Finnish: ymmärtää
French: comprendre		German: verstehen
Greek: καταλαβαίνω		Hungarian: ért
Indonesian: paham		Italian: capire
Japanese: 分かる		Lithuanian: suprasti
Norwegian: forstå		Polish: być świadomym znaczenia
Portuguese: compreender		Spanish: entender
Swedish: förstå

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