understood

• absorbed
• appreciated
• apprehended
• ascertained
• assimilated
• assumed
• beheld
• caught
• cognized
• compassed
• comprehended
• conceived
• concluded
• conjectured
• construed
• contemplated
• decided
• deciphered
• decoded
• deduced
• derived
• digested
• discerned
• drew a conclusion
• dug
• extrapolated
• fathomed
• followed
• found out
• gathered
• got
• grasped
• grokked
• guessed
• had
• inferred
• interpreted
• intuited
• judged
• kenned
• knew
• made
• made out
• penetrated
• perceived
• philosophized
• picked up
• picked up on
• pierced
• possessed
• rationalized
• read
• realized
• reasoned
• recognized
• registered
• savvied
• saw
• seized
• sensed
• speculated
• supposed
• surmised
• thought
• took in
• twigged

• misapprehended
• misconceived
• misconstrued
• misinterpreted
• misknew
• misperceived
• misread
• missed
• mistook
• misunderstood

• verb
  1. To grasp a concept fully and thoroughly, especially (of words, statements, art, etc.) to be aware of the meaning of and (of people) to be aware of the intent of.
  2. To believe, to think one grasps sufficiently despite potentially incomplete knowledge.
  3. (obsolete outside circus, acrobatics) To stand underneath, to support.
• adjective
  1. Having been comprehended.
• interjection
  1. Indicates comprehension on the part of the speaker.

• She clearly understood the risks before signing the agreement.
• I thought he understood the instructions, but he still made a mistake.
• We finally understood why the machine kept failing.
• They never really understood the purpose of the new policy.
• He nodded to show that he understood what was being said.

gaged

made

tacit

calculated

called

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