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under·stood (un′dər sto̵od′)

transitive verb, intransitive verb

understand

adjective

  1. known; comprehended
  2. agreed upon
  3. implied but not expressed

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understood Synonyms

understood

modif.

  1. Comprehended

    penetrated, realized, appreciated, known, discovered, grasped, reasoned out, rationalized, explained, experienced, discerned, distinguished, made out, learned, fathomed, searched, explored, analyzed, mastered, conned, taken to heart, dug*.

    Antonyms unknown*, overlooked*, uncomprehended.

  2. Agreed upon

    concerted, ratified, reciprocally approved, assumed, stipulated, pledged, covenanted, tacitly agreed upon, taken for granted, engaged for, settled, concluded, fixed upon, endorsed, subscribed to, accepted.


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understood quotes

Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

-Bible (Old Testament)

If that was music, I have never understood what music was.

-Faure¤  , Gabriel Urbain

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards.But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. And if one thinks over that proposition it becomes more and more evident that life can never really be understood in time simply because at no particular moment can I find the necessary resting-place from which to understand itöbackwards.

-Kierkegaard, So«  ren Aabye

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