understood
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
understood
adj 1: fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or
explanation; "the understood conditions of troop
withdrawal were clear" [ant: {ununderstood}]
2: implied by or inferred from actions or statements; "gave
silent consent"; "a tacit agreement"; "the understood
provisos of a custody agreement" [syn: {silent}, {tacit},
{understood}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Understand \Un`der*stand"\ ([u^]n`d[~e]r*st[a^]nd"), v. t. [imp.
& p. p. {Understood} ([u^]n`d[~e]r*st[oo^]d"), and Archaic
{Understanded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Understanding}.] [OE.
understanden, AS. understandan, literally, to stand under;
cf. AS. forstandan to understand, G. verstehen. The
development of sense is not clear. See {Under}, and {Stand}.]
1. To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the
meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to
comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in
Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the
court understands the advocate or his argument; to
understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a
wink.
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Speaketh [i. e., speak thou] so plain at this time,
I you pray,
That we may understande what ye say. --Chaucer.
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I understand not what you mean by this. --Shak.
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Understood not all was but a show. --Milton.
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A tongue not understanded of the people. --Bk. of
Com. Prayer.
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2. To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be
informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has
passed the bill.
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3. To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to
mean; to interpret; to explain.
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The most learned interpreters understood the words
of sin, and not of Abel. --Locke.
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4. To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for
granted; to assume.
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War, then, war,
Open or understood, must be resolved. --Milton.
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5. To stand under; to support. [Jocose & R.] --Shak.
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{To give one to understand}, to cause one to know.
{To make one's self understood}, to make one's meaning clear.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
81 Moby Thesaurus words for "understood":
accepted, accounted as, acknowledged, admitted, agreed, alleged,
appreciated, apprehended, arranged, ascertained, assumed,
assumptive, comprehended, conceded, conceived, conjectured,
conventional, covenanted, customary, deemed, discerned, down pat,
established, fixed, folk, given, granted, grasped, hallowed,
handed down, heroic, hoary, immemorial, implicit, implied,
inferred, inveterate, known, legendary, long-established,
long-standing, mythological, of long standing, of the folk, oral,
pat, perceived, postulated, postulational, prehended, premised,
prescriptive, presumed, presumptive, putative, realized, received,
recognized, reputed, rooted, seized, settled, supposed,
suppositional, supposititious, suppositive, tacit,
taken for granted, time-honored, traditional, tried and true,
true-blue, undeclared, unexpressed, unsaid, unspoken, unuttered,
unwritten, venerable, wordless, worshipful
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