Synonyms of the word understand


UNDERSTANDBELIEVE - EMPATHISE - EMPATHIZE - INFER - INTERPRET - READ - REALISE - REALIZE - SEE - SYMPATHISE - SYMPATHIZE - TRANSLATE - UNDERSTAND

understand

  • v. (transitive) To be aware of the meaning of.
  • v. To believe, based on information.
  • v. To impute meaning, character etc. that is not explicitly stated.
  • v. (obsolete, rare, humorous) To stand under; to support.

believe

  • v. (transitive) To accept as true, particularly without absolute certainty (i.e., as opposed to knowing).
  • v. (transitive) To accept that someone is telling the truth.
  • v. (intransitive) To have religious faith; to believe in a greater truth.

empathise

  • v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of empathize.

empathize

  • v. (intransitive) to feel empathy for another person.

infer

  • v. (transitive) To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction,…
  • v. (transitive) To lead to (something) as a consequence; to imply. (Now often considered incorrect, especially…
  • v. (obsolete) To cause, inflict (something) upon or to someone.
  • v. (obsolete) To introduce (a subject) in speaking, writing etc.; to bring in.

interpret

  • v. To explain or tell the meaning of; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms…
  • v. To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation.
  • v. (intransitive) To act as an interpreter.

read

  • v. (obsolete) To think, believe; to consider (that).
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed…
  • v. (transitive) To interpret or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc.
  • v. To consist of certain text.
  • v. (intransitive) Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
  • v. (transitive) To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce…
  • v. (informal, usually ironic) Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
  • v. (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
  • v. (transitive, Britain) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
  • v. (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
  • v. (obsolete) To advise; to counsel. See rede.
  • v. (obsolete) To tell; to declare; to recite.
  • v. (transitive, transgender) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
  • v. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either…
  • n. A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.
  • n. (at first especially in the black LGBT community) An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's…
  • n. (in combination) That which is to be read.

realise

  • v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of realize.

realize

  • v. (formal, transitive) To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring…
  • v. (transitive) To become aware of a fact or situation.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to…
  • v. (transitive, business) To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts;…
  • v. (transitive, business, finance) To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing…
  • v. (transitive, business, obsolete) To convert into real property; to make real estate of.

see

  • v. (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.
  • v. To form a mental picture of.
  • v. (social) To meet, to visit.
  • v. (by extension) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.
  • v. (gambling) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
  • v. (sometimes mystical) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
  • v. To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
  • v. (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
  • v. (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
  • n. A diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.
  • n. The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric.
  • n. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

sympathise

  • v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of sympathize.

sympathize

  • v. To show sympathy; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the…
  • v. To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.
  • v. To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize.

translate

  • v. (transitive) To change text (as of a book, document, movie) from one language to another.
  • v. (intransitive) To change text from one language to another; to have a translation into another language.
  • v. (transitive) To change from one form or medium to another.
  • v. (intransitive) To change from one form or medium to another.
  • v. (transitive, physics) To subject a body to linear motion with no rotation.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To transfer, to move from one place or position to another.
  • v. (transitive, Christianity) To transfer a holy relic from one shrine to another.
  • v. (transitive, Christianity) To transfer a bishop from one see to another.
  • v. (transitive, Christianity) To ascend, to rise to Heaven without bodily death.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To entrance, to cause to lose sense or recollection.
  • v. (transitive, music) To rearrange a song from one genre to another.
  • v. (medicine) To cause to move from one body part to another, as of disease.
  • v. (genetics) To generate a chain of amino acids based on the sequence of codons in an mRNA molecule.
  • n. (analysis, in Euclidean spaces) A set of points obtained by adding a given fixed vector to each point…

understand

  • v. (transitive) To be aware of the meaning of.
  • v. To believe, based on information.
  • v. To impute meaning, character etc. that is not explicitly stated.
  • v. (obsolete, rare, humorous) To stand under; to support.

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