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What is another word for Understand?

• see

  exclamation, comprehend

• realize

  appreciate, comprehend

• infer

  activity, appreciate

• grasp

  comprehend, appreciate

• know

  appreciate, knowledge

• comprehend

  knowledge, perception

• read

  appreciate, language

• recognize

  comprehend, perception

• get

  activity, process

• perceive

  comprehend, sense

• apprehend

  knowledge, believe

• interpret

  language, explain

• fathom

  knowledge, accept

• sense

  digest, be aware of

• appreciate

  believe, knowledge

• gather

  think, reason

• make out

• discern

  perception, language

• follow

  action

• conclude

  believe, think

• learn

  sense, think

• assume

  believe, think

• conceive

  believe, think

• accept

  perceive, interpretation

• hear

  sense, gather

• deduce

  activity, reason

• take in

  accept

• savvy

• dig

  action, get the hang of

• take

  activity, get

• catch

• believe

  creed, accept

• realise

  penetrate, be aware of

• twig

• master

• translate

  explain, construe

• sympathize

• figure out

  get the hang of

• guess

• suppose

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• adj.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)

  • knowledge.

• n.

  •
  • see the light,
  • fall/fit into place,
  • have a feel for something,
  • work out,
  • make sense of something,
  • conjecture.
  •
  • concede,
  • make of,
  • be quick/slow on the uptake,
  • count on,
  • see both sides,
  • agree.
  •
  • compass.
  •
  • twig.
  •
  • reason.

  • empathise (noun)

  • empathise.

  • Other relevant words: (noun)

  • interpretation,
  • perception,
  • process,
  • creed.

  • realise (noun)

  • realise.

  • sympathise (noun)

  • sympathise.

• v.

  • absorb (verb)

  • digest,
  • incorporate,
  • take in,
  • comprehend.

  • appreciate (verb)

  • acknowledge.

  • assimilate (verb)

  • ingest.

  • assume (verb)

  • hypothesize,
  • postulate,
  • find,
  • judge,
  • posit,
  • theorize,
  • ascertain,
  • presuppose,
  • speculate.

  • believe (verb)

  • swear by,
  • profess,
  • reckon on,
  • maintain,
  • take at one’s word,
  • be convinced of,
  • accredit,
  • have,
  • affirm,
  • give credence to,
  • take as gospel,
  • feel,
  • regard,
  • be credulous,
  • surmise,
  • trust,
  • be of the opinion,
  • take for granted,
  • admit,
  • conclude,
  • keep the faith,
  • credit,
  • have faith in,
  • declare,
  • hold,
  • place confidence in,
  • be certain of,
  • presume true,
  • lap up,
  • rest assured,
  • take,
  • give faith,
  • put faith in,
  • presume,
  • have no doubt,
  • assent,
  • attach weight to,
  • accept.

  • catch (verb)

  • dis cern,
  • dis-cern.

  • construe (verb)

  • decipher,
  • analyze,
  • explicate,
  • parse,
  • one’s best guess,
  • translate,
  • spell out,
  • define,
  • expound,
  • render,
  • figure it to be.

  • deem (verb)

  • all-owed,
  • daresaying,
  • all owing,
  • all-owing,
  • daresayed,
  • setting store by,
  • all owed,
  • daresays,
  • sets store by.

  • differentiate (verb)

  • dis criminates,
  • marks off,
  • antithesized,
  • discrepates,
  • telling apart,
  • discrepated,
  • knew whats what,
  • severalizes,
  • severalizing,
  • dis criminate,
  • severalized,
  • dis criminating,
  • knew what’s what,
  • dis-criminate,
  • dis-criminated,
  • knowing what what,
  • knowing whats what,
  • antithesizes,
  • dis-criminates,
  • knew what what,
  • dis criminated,
  • redlines,
  • know what what,
  • know whats what,
  • redlined,
  • knows what what,
  • dis-criminating,
  • antithesizing,
  • sets off,
  • discrepating,
  • redlining,
  • knows whats what,
  • tells apart.

  • divine (verb)

  • fore-bode,
  • previses,
  • prevised,
  • fore telling,
  • fore-feeling,
  • fore feels,
  • fore-knew,
  • fore tells,
  • taking a stab,
  • seeing in cards,
  • going out on limb,
  • goes out on a limb,
  • forefelt,
  • fore felt,
  • fore-boding,
  • pre vising,
  • fore bode,
  • pre vised,
  • fore-know,
  • fore known,
  • takes a stab,
  • goes out a limb,
  • going out limb,
  • took shot,
  • go out a limb,
  • see in cards,
  • goes out on limb,
  • going out a limb,
  • fore-felt,
  • fore-feels,
  • pre dict,
  • fore-tell,
  • prevising,
  • fore told,
  • fore-known,
  • taking shot,
  • take stab,
  • pre-vising,
  • fore knowing,
  • saw the cards,
  • go out limb,
  • taking a shot,
  • pre-vise,
  • fore-bodes,
  • taking stab,
  • see the cards,
  • fore knows,
  • fore tell,
  • fore-told,
  • saw cards,
  • fore-knows,
  • went out a limb,
  • saw in cards,
  • fore feeling,
  • saw in the cards,
  • fore-telling,
  • seeing cards,
  • took a shot,
  • went out limb,
  • going out on a limb,
  • fore boded,
  • pre vise,
  • fore knew,
  • seeing in the cards,
  • fore-boded,
  • takes a shot,
  • fore feel,
  • fore bodes,
  • see cards,
  • sees in cards,
  • takes shot,
  • fore-knowing,
  • went out on limb,
  • fore-feel,
  • sees cards,
  • went out on a limb,
  • seeing the cards,
  • pre-dict,
  • took stab,
  • pre-vised,
  • forefeels,
  • fore know,
  • take shot,
  • sees the cards,
  • goes out limb,
  • takes stab,
  • fore boding,
  • sees in the cards,
  • took a stab,
  • fore-tells.

  • empathize (verb)

  • puts in anothers place,
  • stands in one shoes,
  • stood in one’s shoes,
  • puts oneself anothers place,
  • put in anothers place,
  • stands one shoes,
  • puts another place,
  • stand one shoes,
  • put in another’s place,
  • putting oneself another’s place,
  • puts another’s place,
  • stands in ones shoes,
  • suffering with,
  • stood one shoes,
  • puts in another place,
  • stands shoes,
  • puts oneself another’s place,
  • puts oneself another place,
  • stood ones shoes,
  • stood in shoes,
  • putting oneself in another’s place,
  • stood in ones shoes,
  • puts in another’s place,
  • put oneself in anothers place,
  • put another place,
  • standing in shoes,
  • putting oneself in another place,
  • puts oneself in anothers place,
  • putting another place,
  • putting another’s place,
  • stand in one shoes,
  • put oneself another place,
  • puts oneself in another place,
  • put in another place,
  • putting oneself another place,
  • standing in ones shoes,
  • suffers with,
  • stands one’s shoes,
  • standing shoes,
  • put another’s place,
  • putting anothers place,
  • put oneself in another place,
  • stand in shoes,
  • putting in another place,
  • stood in one shoes,
  • standing one shoes,
  • stood shoes,
  • putting in anothers place,
  • stand in ones shoes,
  • stood one’s shoes,
  • stands in shoes,
  • put oneself anothers place,
  • stands ones shoes,
  • stand one’s shoes,
  • putting oneself in anothers place,
  • stand shoes,
  • puts oneself in another’s place,
  • standing one’s shoes,
  • putting in another’s place,
  • standing in one’s shoes,
  • standing in one shoes,
  • put oneself another’s place,
  • stand ones shoes,
  • put anothers place,
  • stands in one’s shoes,
  • putting oneself anothers place,
  • puts anothers place,
  • standing ones shoes,
  • suffered with.

  • expect (verb)

  • fore casting,
  • fore cast,
  • fore-casts,
  • sees coming,
  • seeing coming,
  • waits for,
  • looked forward to,
  • looked ahead to,
  • watches for,
  • fore-cast,
  • looks forward to,
  • ins the cards,
  • bargained on,
  • inned cards,
  • ins cards,
  • in cards,
  • fore-casting,
  • bargaining on,
  • bargains on,
  • inning cards,
  • looks ahead to,
  • inning the cards,
  • inned the cards,
  • fore casts,
  • hoping for,
  • looking ahead to,
  • saw coming,
  • hopes for.

  • feel (verb)

  • being turned to,
  • took heart,
  • was sensible of,
  • gat in touch,
  • has vibes,
  • are turned on to,
  • gotten in touch,
  • takes heart,
  • is turned on to,
  • art affected,
  • being sensitive,
  • wert impressed,
  • are sensible of,
  • gotten vibes,
  • wast sensible of,
  • is sensitive,
  • re-marked,
  • wert turned on to,
  • hast funny feeling,
  • am turned to,
  • hath vibes,
  • am turned on to,
  • was turned on to,
  • haddest funny feeling,
  • un derwent,
  • were affected,
  • hath funny feeling,
  • getting vibes,
  • under went,
  • are impressed,
  • were impressed,
  • was impressed,
  • wert sensible of,
  • getting touch,
  • was sensitive,
  • are sensitive,
  • is sensible of,
  • having vibes,
  • is excited,
  • are turned to,
  • takes to heart,
  • is turned to,
  • took to heart,
  • were excited,
  • under going,
  • re-marking,
  • re mark,
  • art sensible of,
  • are affected,
  • am affected,
  • being affected,
  • taking to heart,
  • am sensitive,
  • wert sensitive,
  • was excited,
  • hadst vibes,
  • under-going,
  • wast excited,
  • were turned to,
  • got touch,
  • is affected,
  • re marked,
  • haddest vibes,
  • art sensitive,
  • be turned to,
  • am impressed,
  • under gone,
  • am sensible of,
  • un-derwent,
  • wast sensitive,
  • being sensible of,
  • are excited,
  • art turned to,
  • get touch,
  • got vibes,
  • wert affected,
  • wert turned to,
  • re marking,
  • wast affected,
  • gets vibes,
  • wast impressed,
  • under-went,
  • art turned on to,
  • wast turned on to,
  • hadst funny feeling,
  • wast turned to,
  • has funny feeling,
  • were sensitive,
  • was turned to,
  • were turned on to,
  • being excited,
  • art impressed,
  • hast vibes,
  • had funny feeling,
  • re marks,
  • am excited,
  • had vibes,
  • being turned on to,
  • were sensible of,
  • under-gone,
  • gets in touch,
  • was affected,
  • gets touch,
  • wert excited,
  • being impressed,
  • is impressed,
  • having funny feeling,
  • getting in touch,
  • gotten touch,
  • re-marks,
  • gat vibes,
  • taking heart,
  • gat touch.

  • foresee (verb)

  • crystals ball it,
  • crystalled ball it,
  • pre vision,
  • pre sages,
  • fore-see,
  • calls turn,
  • pre-sages,
  • preknowing,
  • dopes out,
  • pre-sage,
  • fore see,
  • pre know,
  • fore sees,
  • calling turn,
  • fore-seeing,
  • crystaling ball it,
  • doped out,
  • preknown,
  • pre sage,
  • pre knows,
  • preknew,
  • call turn,
  • called turn,
  • fore-seen,
  • crystaled ball it,
  • fore-sees,
  • psyching out,
  • pre-visions,
  • pre-vision,
  • psychs out,
  • fore saw,
  • fore seeing,
  • fore seen,
  • pre-known,
  • pre visioned,
  • pre-knows,
  • doping out,
  • calls the turn,
  • previsioning,
  • pre visions,
  • pre known,
  • pre knowing,
  • called the turn,
  • previsioned,
  • pre-know,
  • sees it coming,
  • seeing it coming,
  • fore-saw,
  • pre-knew,
  • preknows,
  • crystalling ball it,
  • pre-knowing,
  • pre knew,
  • calling the turn,
  • pre-visioned,
  • pre visioning,
  • saw it coming,
  • pre-visioning.

  • hear (verb)

  • gat wind of,
  • un-earthing,
  • are informed,
  • wast told of,
  • is led to believe,
  • gets picture,
  • was told of,
  • art led to believe,
  • un earthing,
  • gets wind of,
  • getting wind of,
  • were led to believe,
  • un earths,
  • have good authority,
  • got the picture,
  • is told of,
  • being informed,
  • am advised,
  • dis covering,
  • gat picture,
  • were informed,
  • un-earthed,
  • dis-cover,
  • gets wise to,
  • are advised,
  • gat wise to,
  • hast on good authority,
  • are led to believe,
  • art advised,
  • un-earth,
  • were told of,
  • wast led believe,
  • art led believe,
  • getting picture,
  • being told of,
  • were led believe,
  • gotten wind of,
  • has on good authority,
  • has good authority,
  • art told of,
  • gat the picture,
  • is informed,
  • un earthed,
  • hadst on good authority,
  • had on good authority,
  • had good authority,
  • am led to believe,
  • dis-covers,
  • is advised,
  • gets the picture,
  • hath on good authority,
  • dis covers,
  • un-earths,
  • are led believe,
  • un earth,
  • are told of,
  • being led to believe,
  • wert told of,
  • wert informed,
  • am told of,
  • gotten wise to,
  • wert led to believe,
  • being advised,
  • wast informed,
  • catching on,
  • was led to believe,
  • getting the picture,
  • be led believe,
  • am led believe,
  • was led believe,
  • hath good authority,
  • dis covered,
  • gotten the picture,
  • catches on,
  • got wise to,
  • wast led to believe,
  • hadst good authority,
  • haddest good authority,
  • got picture,
  • dis cover,
  • was informed,
  • having good authority,
  • hast good authority,
  • gotten picture,
  • having on good authority,
  • were advised,
  • wert advised,
  • was advised,
  • art informed,
  • haddest on good authority,
  • is led believe,
  • get picture,
  • wert led believe,
  • dis-covering,
  • getting wise to,
  • dis-covered,
  • wast advised,
  • being led believe.

  • identify with (verb)

  • puts another’s shoes,
  • putting in same category,
  • put another shoes,
  • put oneself another shoes,
  • putting in another shoes,
  • puts oneself in anothers shoes,
  • saw through someone eyes,
  • puts oneself in another shoes,
  • put anothers shoes,
  • put oneself another’s shoes,
  • thinks in connection,
  • putting oneself in another shoes,
  • puts oneself another shoes,
  • putting anothers shoes,
  • puts oneself another’s shoes,
  • putting oneself another’s shoes,
  • putting oneself in another’s shoes,
  • sees through someone’s eyes,
  • puts in same category,
  • puts anothers shoes,
  • putting oneself in anothers shoes,
  • thought connection,
  • put in another’s shoes,
  • see through someone eyes,
  • puts another shoes,
  • putting oneself another shoes,
  • thinking connection,
  • sees through someones eyes,
  • puts oneself anothers shoes,
  • thought of connection,
  • sees through someone eyes,
  • puts oneself in another’s shoes,
  • seeing through someones eyes,
  • think of connection,
  • put another’s shoes,
  • putting in another’s shoes,
  • think in connection,
  • put oneself anothers shoes,
  • putting another’s shoes,
  • seeing through someone’s eyes,
  • thinking of in connection,
  • see through someones eyes,
  • thought in connection,
  • putting another shoes,
  • put oneself in anothers shoes,
  • responding to,
  • put same category,
  • thinks of connection,
  • put in another shoes,
  • thought of in connection,
  • saw through someones eyes,
  • puts in anothers shoes,
  • puts in another’s shoes,
  • saw through someone’s eyes,
  • putting oneself anothers shoes,
  • thinking in connection,
  • put oneself in another shoes,
  • think connection,
  • seeing through someone eyes,
  • puts in another shoes,
  • thinks of in connection,
  • responds to,
  • thinks connection,
  • put in anothers shoes,
  • putting same category,
  • putting in anothers shoes,
  • thinking of connection,
  • puts same category.

  • infer (verb)

  • de-rive,
  • in-duce,
  • de-riving,
  • read in to,
  • reaches conclusion,
  • reads into,
  • de-rives,
  • arrives at,
  • draws inference,
  • drawing inference,
  • in duce,
  • in duces,
  • reading between lines,
  • de rive,
  • in-duces,
  • de riving,
  • de rived,
  • reached conclusion,
  • drew inference,
  • reading in to,
  • reads in to,
  • reaching conclusion,
  • de rives,
  • reads between lines,
  • figures out,
  • de-rived,
  • reading into.

  • know (verb)

  • know,
  • perceive,
  • recognize,
  • discern.

  • learn (verb)

  • study,
  • read,
  • discover,
  • glean,
  • grasp.

  • master (verb)

  • buries yourself in,
  • getting the knack of,
  • hitting the books,
  • beats game,
  • buried yourself in,
  • beat game,
  • gains mastery,
  • gat knack of,
  • get knack of,
  • beating game,
  • gat down cold,
  • getting down pat,
  • gat hold of,
  • gotten knack of,
  • gat down pat,
  • got the hang of,
  • gets hold of,
  • gat the hang of,
  • beats system,
  • gets knack of,
  • hit books,
  • beats the game,
  • excelled in,
  • gotten hang of,
  • getting hang of,
  • getting knack of,
  • getting down cold,
  • excels in,
  • gets the knack of,
  • gaining mastery,
  • megastudies,
  • beating the system,
  • gotten down pat,
  • got hang of,
  • got down cold,
  • megastudying,
  • gotten hold of,
  • megastudied,
  • beats the system,
  • gotten down cold,
  • beating the game,
  • burying yourself in,
  • gets down cold,
  • gets hang of,
  • gotten the knack of,
  • get hang of,
  • gets the hang of,
  • gained mastery,
  • got knack of,
  • beat system,
  • got the knack of,
  • gat hang of,
  • getting the hang of,
  • gets down pat,
  • excelling in,
  • learn ropes,
  • gat the knack of,
  • gotten the hang of,
  • got down pat,
  • beating system.

  • pity (verb)

  • gives quarter,
  • shows forgiveness,
  • being sympathetic,
  • grieved with,
  • showed forgiveness,
  • art sorry for,
  • giving quarter,
  • had mercy on,
  • has compassion,
  • granting amnesty,
  • grieving with,
  • weeps for,
  • put out of misery,
  • laments with,
  • bled for,
  • wert sorry for,
  • puts out of one misery,
  • was sympathetic,
  • putting out one misery,
  • weeping for,
  • grieves with,
  • hadst mercy on,
  • hath compassion,
  • wast sympathetic,
  • hast compassion,
  • put out of ones misery,
  • putting out of one misery,
  • puts out misery,
  • puts out one’s misery,
  • lamented with,
  • felt with,
  • was sorry for,
  • haddest mercy on,
  • had compassion,
  • puts out of ones misery,
  • put out misery,
  • put out one misery,
  • granted amnesty,
  • hadst compassion,
  • art sympathetic,
  • haddest compassion,
  • feeling with,
  • wert sympathetic,
  • put out of one misery,
  • put out ones misery,
  • putting out of ones misery,
  • puts out of misery,
  • puts out ones misery,
  • has mercy on,
  • putting out ones misery,
  • am sorry for,
  • hath mercy on,
  • bleeds for,
  • putting out one’s misery,
  • are sympathetic,
  • am sympathetic,
  • puts out of one’s misery,
  • feels with,
  • grants amnesty,
  • hast mercy on,
  • putting out misery,
  • shows sympathy,
  • bleeding for,
  • showing forgiveness,
  • is sympathetic,
  • were sorry for,
  • were sympathetic,
  • lamenting with,
  • wast sorry for,
  • gave quarter,
  • puts out one misery,
  • showed sympathy,
  • having compassion,
  • wept for,
  • putting out of one’s misery,
  • put out one’s misery,
  • are sorry for,
  • showing sympathy,
  • having mercy on.

  • posit (verb)

  • pre mises,
  • pre-mise,
  • pre-mises,
  • pre mise.

  • preoccupy (verb)

  • pre-occupies,
  • pre-occupy,
  • pre occupies,
  • pre occupying,
  • pre occupied,
  • pre occupy,
  • pre-occupying,
  • pre-occupied.

  • put in a specific context (verb)

  • contextualize.

  • realize (verb)

  • gat through one head,
  • getting through ones head,
  • got through one’s head,
  • becoming conscious of,
  • gat through one’s head,
  • gets through one head,
  • get through head,
  • gat it,
  • getting through one head,
  • gotten through ones head,
  • getting through one’s head,
  • became conscious of,
  • gotten it,
  • gat through head,
  • gets through ones head,
  • gets through one’s head,
  • becomes conscious of,
  • got through head,
  • getting it,
  • get through ones head,
  • gat through ones head,
  • gotten through one’s head,
  • getting through head,
  • got through one head,
  • gotten through head,
  • get through one head,
  • gotten through one head,
  • gets through head,
  • got through ones head.

  • reckon (verb)

  • planned on,
  • relies on,
  • planning on,
  • builds on,
  • trusts in,
  • building on,
  • trusting in,
  • builded on,
  • depends on,
  • trusted in.

  • relate to (verb)

  • linking with,
  • links with.

  • see (verb)

  • be-hold,
  • gat drift,
  • be-holds,
  • getting drift,
  • get drift,
  • be holds,
  • gets drift,
  • got the drift,
  • getting the drift,
  • be-held,
  • gat the drift,
  • gotten drift,
  • be-holding,
  • gotten the drift,
  • got drift,
  • be holding,
  • gets the drift.

  • sense (verb)

  • feel gut,
  • wast with it,
  • hadst a feeling,
  • art with it,
  • gotten impression,
  • hast feeling,
  • having a feeling,
  • is with it,
  • gotten the impression,
  • feeling in gut,
  • gets the impression,
  • has feeling,
  • getting the impression,
  • hadst feeling,
  • wert with it,
  • got the impression,
  • feels gut,
  • getting impression,
  • feels in gut,
  • haddest a feeling,
  • get impression,
  • hath feeling,
  • has a feeling,
  • was with it,
  • haddest feeling,
  • gets impression,
  • got impression,
  • gat impression,
  • feel bones,
  • feeling gut,
  • are with it,
  • hath a feeling,
  • being with it,
  • were with it,
  • had a feeling,
  • gat the impression,
  • felt gut,
  • had feeling,
  • having feeling,
  • hast a feeling,
  • am with it.

  • suppose (verb)

  • dare-says,
  • dare-saying,
  • hazard guess,
  • taking as gospel truth,
  • takes stock in,
  • taking stock in,
  • pre-tended,
  • pre tends,
  • took as gospel truth,
  • guesstimates,
  • pre-tends,
  • pre tending,
  • dare saying,
  • hazarding a guess,
  • pre tend,
  • hazarded guess,
  • guesstimating,
  • dare says,
  • dare-said,
  • hazards a guess,
  • took stock in,
  • hazards guess,
  • hazarding guess,
  • daresaid,
  • dare said,
  • pre-tending,
  • takes as gospel truth,
  • hazarded a guess.

  • suspect (verb)

  • dis-believing,
  • has doubt,
  • thinking probable,
  • thought probable,
  • had doubt,
  • thinks probable,
  • mis-trust,
  • harbored suspicion,
  • hath doubt,
  • mis trust,
  • haddest doubt,
  • dis believes,
  • smelt rat,
  • smelling rat,
  • smell rat,
  • dis believing,
  • smells rat,
  • dis believed,
  • dis-believes,
  • smelt a rat,
  • mis trusts,
  • having doubt,
  • smelled a rat,
  • mis trusting,
  • hadst doubt,
  • mis-trusting,
  • smells a rat,
  • dis-believed,
  • dis-believe,
  • mis-trusted,
  • harbors suspicion,
  • smelled rat,
  • harboring suspicion,
  • dis believe,
  • hast doubt,
  • mis trusted.

  • sympathize (verb)

  • art understanding,
  • was accord,
  • was sympathy,
  • am accord,
  • sided with,
  • art in sympathy,
  • shared anothers sorrow,
  • being sympathy,
  • being there for,
  • be sympathy,
  • shares another’s sorrow,
  • art sympathy,
  • emphathizes,
  • wert accord,
  • shares another sorrow,
  • wast there for,
  • is in sympathy,
  • being accord,
  • tunes in,
  • is understanding,
  • are kind to,
  • wast accord,
  • sides with,
  • are sympathy,
  • wert there for,
  • wert sympathy,
  • picks up on,
  • was understanding,
  • share anothers sorrow,
  • felt heart go out to,
  • share another sorrow,
  • sharing anothers sorrow,
  • siding with,
  • is in accord,
  • being understanding,
  • art there for,
  • were kind to,
  • am there for,
  • shares anothers sorrow,
  • showing tenderness,
  • wast in sympathy,
  • offering consolation,
  • art kind to,
  • feels heart go out to,
  • emphathized,
  • were there for,
  • is there for,
  • showed tenderness,
  • feeling heart go out to,
  • being in sympathy,
  • am understanding,
  • are accord,
  • be accord,
  • am kind to,
  • wert kind to,
  • was in sympathy,
  • are in sympathy,
  • showing kindliness,
  • was in accord,
  • was there for,
  • am in accord,
  • is sympathy,
  • were sympathy,
  • shared another’s sorrow,
  • am sympathy,
  • were understanding,
  • being in accord,
  • picked up on,
  • art accord,
  • was kind to,
  • sharing another sorrow,
  • wast in accord,
  • wast kind to,
  • are there for,
  • were in accord,
  • offered consolation,
  • are in accord,
  • shows tenderness,
  • is kind to,
  • are understanding,
  • were accord,
  • wast understanding,
  • shows kindliness,
  • wert in accord,
  • sharing another’s sorrow,
  • being kind to,
  • pick upon,
  • is accord,
  • showed kindliness,
  • wast sympathy,
  • wert in sympathy,
  • were in sympathy,
  • picks upon,
  • shared another sorrow,
  • picking upon,
  • emphathizing,
  • wert understanding,
  • offers consolation,
  • art in accord.

  • think (verb)

  • are convinced,
  • am convinced,
  • being convinced,
  • planning for,
  • were convinced,
  • wast convinced,
  • was convinced,
  • art convinced,
  • is convinced,
  • plans for,
  • wert convinced.

  • understand (verb)

  • tolerate,
  • have knowledge of,
  • make sense of,
  • consider,
  • note,
  • take meaning,
  • distinguish,
  • get the point,
  • take it,
  • conceive,
  • explain,
  • be aware,
  • find out,
  • guess,
  • deduce,
  • possess,
  • register,
  • make out,
  • fancy.

  • wake/waken (verb)

  • jazzing up,
  • re news,
  • firing up,
  • jazzes up,
  • re new,
  • keys up,
  • zipping up,
  • steams up,
  • re-news,
  • switches on,
  • keying up,
  • zips up,
  • re-new.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • empathic,
  • wake up to,
  • false impression,
  • misjudge,
  • ken,
  • discriminate,
  • cotton on,
  • dawn on,
  • tumble to,
  • tap into,
  • know from,
  • latch on,
  • empathetic,
  • apprehend,
  • disentangle,
  • unravel.
  •
  • empathy,
  • penetrate,
  • seize,
  • message,
  • tell,
  • catch on.
  •
  • plumb,
  • score,
  • chalk something up,
  • connect.
  •
  • hang,
  • keep up,
  • understanding,
  • follow.
  •
  • taste.
  •
  • get.
  •
  • draw.

  • believe

  • takes for granted,
  • lapped up,
  • keep faith,
  • took for granted,
  • keeping the faith,
  • trusted,
  • having faith in,
  • repute,
  • taking for granted,
  • be of opinion.

  • construe

  • Parsing,
  • parses,
  • spelled out,
  • Parsed.

  • do

  • see to.

  • expect

  • looking forward to,
  • watching for,
  • waited for,
  • looking for,
  • hope for,
  • look ahead to,
  • looks for,
  • watched for,
  • see coming,
  • look for,
  • wait for,
  • waiting for,
  • look forward to,
  • watch for,
  • Hoped,
  • hoped for,
  • looked for,
  • in the cards,
  • bargain on.

  • feel

  • feels,
  • have vibes,
  • be turned on to,
  • be impressed,
  • be affected,
  • take to heart,
  • take heart,
  • be sensitive,
  • have funny feeling,
  • got in touch,
  • get vibes,
  • be excited,
  • Re-mark,
  • get in touch,
  • tasting,
  • be sensible of.

  • figure out

  • dope out.

  • foresee

  • crystal ball it,
  • preknow,
  • psych out,
  • see it coming,
  • previsions,
  • call the turn,
  • psyched out,
  • prevision.

  • hear

  • get the picture,
  • apperceive,
  • get wise to,
  • be advised,
  • got wind of,
  • caught on,
  • be told of,
  • get wind of,
  • be informed,
  • be led to believe,
  • have on good authority.

  • interpret

  • Imaged,
  • imaging,
  • made of,
  • exemplifies,
  • commentating,
  • commentates,
  • commentated,
  • reenacting,
  • reenact,
  • re-enacts,
  • commentate,
  • reenacted,
  • making of,
  • re-enact,
  • throw light on.

  • learn

  • digs up,
  • tripping over,
  • stumble upon,
  • smoke out,
  • tripped over,
  • digging up,
  • trip over,
  • dig up,
  • dug up,
  • stumbling upon.

  • master

  • excel in,
  • get down cold,
  • bury yourself in,
  • get down pat,
  • get the knack of,
  • gain mastery,
  • getting hold of,
  • learn the ropes,
  • get the hang of,
  • got hold of,
  • get hold of,
  • beat the system,
  • beat the game,
  • megastudy.

  • Other relevant words:

  • pity,
  • divine,
  • have sneaking suspicion,
  • stirred up,
  • grooving,
  • Visioning,
  • be cognizant of,
  • daresay,
  • preoccupied,
  • woken,
  • showing mercy,
  • Visioned,
  • catch,
  • figured out,
  • share another’s sorrow,
  • got into,
  • preoccupy,
  • stir up,
  • predicts,
  • fall for,
  • forefeeling,
  • Followed,
  • suspect,
  • Accounted,
  • read between lines,
  • get into,
  • latch onto,
  • latched onto,
  • draw inference,
  • felt for,
  • put oneself in another’s place,
  • compassionates,
  • harbor suspicion,
  • Foreknowing,
  • is afraid,
  • Predicting,
  • savvy,
  • Relished,
  • set apart,
  • assimilate,
  • zipped up,
  • sympathize,
  • mark off,
  • side with,
  • be understanding,
  • antithesize,
  • redline,
  • related to,
  • get the idea,
  • learn,
  • absorb,
  • suppose,
  • Postulating,
  • see in the cards,
  • fires up,
  • tuning in,
  • individuates,
  • take up,
  • Compassionated,
  • individuate,
  • arriving at,
  • Foreknew,
  • feels for,
  • go out on limb,
  • fathom,
  • shows mercy,
  • setting off,
  • build on,
  • go along with,
  • construe,
  • put oneself in another’s shoes,
  • identify with,
  • set store by,
  • be in accord,
  • sets apart,
  • expect,
  • key up,
  • get it,
  • marking off,
  • assume,
  • foreknows,
  • tune in,
  • soaked up,
  • get through one’s head,
  • be there for,
  • have a hunch,
  • be conscious of,
  • think,
  • smelling a rat,
  • feel heart go out to,
  • has a hunch,
  • think probable,
  • catch the drift,
  • individuated,
  • reach conclusion,
  • predicate,
  • Postulated,
  • respond to,
  • infer,
  • steamed up,
  • arrived at,
  • count upon,
  • be in sympathy,
  • realize,
  • master,
  • fathoms,
  • previse,
  • switching on,
  • become conscious of,
  • set off,
  • Foreknown,
  • being aware of,
  • sympathize with,
  • show mercy,
  • tell apart,
  • picking up on,
  • switch on,
  • empathize,
  • steam up,
  • be afraid,
  • take a stab,
  • show kindliness,
  • dig,
  • savvied,
  • soak up,
  • trust in,
  • stirs up,
  • go out on a limb,
  • zip up,
  • stirring up,
  • savvying,
  • grooved,
  • depended on,
  • gets it,
  • was aware of,
  • responded to,
  • told apart,
  • deem,
  • have doubt,
  • linked with,
  • relate to,
  • estimate,
  • link with,
  • smell a rat,
  • see,
  • got it,
  • built on,
  • knowing what’s what,
  • gathering,
  • Osmose,
  • take a shot,
  • gather,
  • discrepate,
  • put in same category,
  • showed mercy,
  • foreknow,
  • feel for,
  • foresee,
  • be aware of,
  • plans on,
  • stand in one’s shoes,
  • be kind to,
  • knows what’s what,
  • fire up,
  • see daylight,
  • think of in connection,
  • hear,
  • take account of,
  • figure out,
  • soaking up,
  • interpret,
  • steaming up,
  • have hunch,
  • reckon,
  • arrive at,
  • Compassionating,
  • setting apart,
  • Allying,
  • suspected,
  • switched on,
  • offer consolation,
  • feeling for,
  • Individuating,
  • see through someone’s eyes,
  • understand,
  • plan on,
  • depend on,
  • imagine,
  • read into,
  • soaks up,
  • differentiate,
  • emphathize,
  • tuned in,
  • Forefeel,
  • show tenderness,
  • pick up on,
  • marked off,
  • be inclined to think,
  • rely on,
  • keyed up,
  • appreciate,
  • severalize,
  • know what’s what,
  • suffer with,
  • believe.

  • pity

  • be sympathetic,
  • bleed for,
  • lament with,
  • give quarter,
  • grieve with,
  • being sorry for,
  • is sorry for,
  • have mercy on,
  • grant amnesty,
  • have compassion,
  • taking pity on,
  • take pity on,
  • weep for,
  • be sorry for,
  • takes pity on,
  • put out of one’s misery,
  • took pity on,
  • show forgiveness,
  • feel with,
  • putting out of misery,
  • show sympathy.

  • posit

  • posits.

  • see

  • be held,
  • be hold,
  • get the drift,
  • Experiencing.

  • sense

  • felt in gut,
  • get the impression,
  • feel in bones,
  • have feeling,
  • sense,
  • feel in gut,
  • have a feeling,
  • be with it.

  • suppose

  • supposes,
  • guesstimated,
  • opine,
  • dare say,
  • dare-say,
  • take stock in,
  • guesstimate,
  • hazard a guess,
  • take as gospel truth.

  • think

  • planned for,
  • be convinced,
  • plan for,
  • thought.

How to use «Understand» in context?

Paraphrases for Understand:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    comprehend, understanding.
  • Proper noun, singular
    understanding, understands, understandings.
  • Noun, plural
    understands, understandings.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    understanding.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    comprehend.
  • Verb, base form
    comprehend.

• Independent

  • Foreign word
    comprendre.
  • Adjective
    realise.
  • Proper noun, singular
    GSS, chuckles.
  • Noun, plural
    Grips, answers, sources, exchanges, investigations, dangers, insights.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    grasp, realise.
  • Adverb
    realise.
  • Verb, past tense
    figured, lost, realised, realized, Got, Meant.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    accept, admit, are, assume, believe, consider, consist, contain, feel, find, found, grasp, imagine, involve, kent, perceive, realise, realize, recognise, seize, suggest, suppose, sympathise, take, tell, think, wonder, Got, Learnt, Told, AM.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    gets, outlines, comprises, elucidates, reflects, consists.
  • Verb, base form
    accept, acquaint, admit, analyze, apprehend, assess, assimilate, assume, believe, clarify, conceive, consider, consist, contain, convey, decipher, educate, embrace, entertain, evaluate, fathom, feel, find, gauge, grasp, imagine, impress, involve, kent, perceive, realise, realize, recognise, seize, suggest, sympathise, take, tell, think, uncover, Familiarize, Got, Learnt, familiarise, Comprised, Considering, challenges, explains, underst.

• Other Related

  • Coordinating conjunction
    understood.
  • Preposition or subordinating conjunction
    understanding.
  • Adjective
    comprehensible.
  • Proper noun, singular
    understood.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    understood.
  • Adverb
    understood.
  • Interjection
    understood.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    gather, sympathize.
  • Verb, base form
    ascertain, comprehensible, discern, gather, interpret, sympathize.

Hypernym for Understand:

• v.

  • cognition
    construe, savvy, solve, catch, dig, grasp, figure out, compass, puzzle out,GROK, read, apprehend, translate, comprehend, lick, interpret, bottom, see, make out, get, fathom, work out, penetrate, sense, understand, follow, work, get the picture, touch.

Hyponym for Understand:

• v.

  • cognition
    believe.