UNDERSTANDING Synonyms

• a tapering point

• shrewdness shown by keen insight

• understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something

• delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)

• an expression of gratitude

• a favorable judgment

• an increase in price or value

• fearful expectation or anticipation

• the cognitive condition of someone who understands

• painful expectation

• the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)

• intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)

• the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

• having knowledge of

• state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness

• an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result)

• the relation of comprising something

• an interpretation of the meaning of something; the act of construing

• shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

• crafty artfulness (especially in deception)

• attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness

• marked by skill in deception

• showing inventiveness and skill

• the cognitive condition of someone who understands

• delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)

• perception of that which is obscure

• the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

• the trait of judging wisely and objectively

• unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice

• the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished

• understanding and entering into another's feelings

• something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied)

• a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred

• an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection

• a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false

• a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement)

• the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation

• clear or deep perception of a situation

• a feeling of understanding

• the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation

• grasping the inner nature of things intuitively

• the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience

• a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy

• secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy)

• information about recent and important events

• the operation of gathering information about an enemy

• a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something

• the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance

• an explanation that results from interpreting something

• an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious

• the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

• the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept

• a way of conceiving something

• the process of perceiving

• knowledge gained by perceiving

• becoming aware of something via the senses

• coming to understand something clearly and distinctly

• making real or giving the appearance of reality

• a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer

• a sale in order to obtain money (as a sale of stock or a sale of the estate of a bankrupt person) or the money so obtained

• the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer

• something that is made real or concrete