understood
under·stood (un′dər sto̵od′)
transitive verb, intransitive verb
adjective
- known; comprehended
- agreed upon
- implied but not expressed
understood
modif.
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. 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.
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?
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.
If that was music, I have never understood what music was.
Browse dictionary entries near understood
- understeer
- understatement
- understated
- understate
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- understandably
- understandable
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- understaffed
- underspin
- understory
- understrapper
- understrength
- understudy
- undersurface
- undertake
- undertaken
- undertaker
- undertaking
- underthings
